Lament for a lost planet
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa….
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Bon mots
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.
Probably twas ever thus
You can’t control your grandchildren, or what happens to them and their generation; can’t control your children or what happens to them and their generation. Hell, you can’t even control much about yourself and your generation.
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All together now
All over the world, religion and fascism are, separately or together, driving the people of the world collectively insane.
Future path
The young kangaroo following his mother has no idea what his life will be when she finally leaves him behind
Probably not
When Rupert Murdoch looks at Donald Trump, and the return of Fascism around the world, and the now irreversible destruction of the planet, is he capable of feeling shame?
A visitor from outside science
I see the Daily Mail has picked up the story that “Oumuamua”, the “visiting” rock whose origins lay outside our solar system, might be an alien artefact with a light sail, say a couple of scientists. This kind of “science” is science fake news, tabloid science. Bad enough when it is based on poor reporting
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Countries with McDonald’s
I had thought the rule was that America simply hated socialist countries and did its best to destroy them in case people elsewhere might discover that there was an economic alternative to American controlled capitalism in their countries. But that doesn’t explain the hatred of people like Trump and Bolton for Iran. So a more
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