Dress rehearsal
Watching Trump gradually putting together the framework of a Fascist state is like seeing a re-enactment of Hitler putting together the framework of Nazi Germany.
Baton passing
Students I once thought of as the younger generation are now all professors. Unlike me.
40 winks more
Strange how some event which is a “wake-up call” leaves everyone sleeping just as soundly as ever.
Your time starts…now
We spend our lives waiting to sit one exam after another.
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Hierarchy
If you don’t get qualifications when you are young you will find yourself working for idiots. If you do get qualifications you will find yourself working for more highly paid idiots.
Old man in dry month
Rain rain come and play, stay away another day.
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Doesn’t matter who votes, it’s who counts the votes*
Americans, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, believe they have the “world’s greatest democracy” (whatever that means). What is undoubtedly true is that they have the worst electoral process of any western democracy. * And establishes electoral boundaries, and decides on voter ID, and sets up polling places, and uses electronic voting,
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Lament for a lost planet
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa….
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Double entry
As you stumble through life you encounter people you love and people you hate, and vice versa. All you can do is hope, when you balance your end of life ledger, that the former outnumber the latter.
Of the people
Every election, everywhere, since politics began, has been invested with a rich mix of hooes and fears. Fears seem to be winning more often, lately.