There is absolutely nothing you can do to stop Trump destroying the planet. These bastards have prepared the ground carefully over the last 20 years – attacking science and closing down science advisory bodies; attacking education, making sure children learn nothing about climate change (or evolution), close down public schools and replace them with religious […]
Rather in the way that one is encouraged to overcome the terrors of public speaking by imagining the audience naked I find that I can only deal with right wing politicians by imagining which ones among them would be well suited to a Nazi uniform. And remembering that the likes of Goering and Goebbels, Himmler
Authors to accompany you on a long hospital visit: Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, PG Wodehouse, William Shakespeare, Terry Pratchett.
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Of the as many as six impossible things before breakfast I\’ve believed every day, top of the list, every day, is the fact that so many Homo sapiens still believe, in the year 2017, in imaginary beings who live in imaginary places in the sky, and who either act psychopathically on those beliefs, or at the very
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How odd it would be to have been born Japanese, or Nigerian, or American, or Finnish, or Peruvian, or Tibetan. Who would I have been?
One of the causes, and symptoms, of anxiety is a kind of excessive empathy. An excess that makes it very difficult to read or watch stories of people in trouble or being treated badly or being manipulated. The wait for the climax which sets things right can be unbearable – much worse if, in the name
Laziness is the mother of invention.* * Joke™️ – created and first performed in June 1965 to an appreciative audience of three Zoology Honours students.
Samuel Johnson – legend in his own dinner time.
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