And love, and sadness, and happiness, and triumph, and disappointment, and pleasure, and pain, and regret, and joy, and astonishment, and forgetfulness, and memory, and grief, and contentment, and bitterness, and…. And all the other nouns and verbs and adjectives that increase in number with age.
Look back in anger Read More »
\”Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?\” \”A Republic, if you can keep it.\” said Benjamin Franklin. They kept it for 230 years, pretty good effort, but now they are losing it, to King Donald.
A monarchy, if you can\’t lose it Read More »
Fortune favours the vicious, the ruthless, the rich, the ignorant, the cowardly.
The brave? Not so much. Read More »
When I had finished my first year of high school I wasn\’t sure whether I had done well enough to get into the top class in second year or only the second top. 2B or not 2B, that was the question.
Outrageous fortune Read More »
You are never the World\’s oldest person very long – seek other fame
I\’m going to live forever Read More »
A haiku is a play on words, a play in words, in other words, mind games
The play\’s the thing Read More »
The inventor of plastic eating utensils? Tarred and feathered
No punishment is enough Read More »
Disturbing to discover how many Hollywood actors, who play intelligent, wise, gentle people on screen, turn out in real life to be Libertarians, Scientologists, or gun nuts (or all three). You can\’t judge an actor by the roles they cover.
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