Not so many symptoms that you go into a panic attack wondering if your body is about to explode; not so few symptoms that you get anxious wondering if some previously unknown syndrome, about to be named after you, is shielding the symptoms until they can leap out at a stage too late for treatment. […]
I have my first follower on this new blog. Welcome! Today one follower, tomorrow the world.
\”Left versus Right\”? \”Socialists versus Conservatives\”? \”Workers versus Bosses\”? Yeah, nah, the old labels don\’t work any more, we all know that. In the 21st century the real division is between \”Reality-based and Alt-facts\”.
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Great oaks from little acorns grow. And then the tree is attacked by caterpillars, borers, wood rot; loses branches from a lightning strike; falls over in a severe storm; is attacked by fungus and many insects; turns into mulch. The end.
The Trump government, like conservative governments everywhere, is intent on making a desert of their country and calling it freedom.
The fanaticism of religions is directly proportional to their enthusiasm for making blasphemy a crime, and to peculiar fetishes about hair on the head, and to their concern about which body organs people rub together for pleasure.
Countries get the leaders they deserve? America, Britain, Russia, Hungary, South Africa et al? Sure, well deserved, no question. But what on earth did Australia do to deserve Acting Prime Minster Barnaby Joyce?
Past lives regression Read More »
One of the signs of growing older, I find, is that the frequency of being the youngest in the room (close to 100% when I was a stripling) falls and falls, while the chance of being the oldest in the room rises and rises. Intelligence and wisdom follow similar paths.
These days when somebody says something is literally something else I find they are not literally being literal.
