Nothing is
certain in
this world
except death,
taxes, and the
absolute
certainty that
when things
seem to be
going well,
somewhere
on the planet,
religion will
bugger it up.
Category: History
With muffled drum
I wasn’t fond
of Notre Dame
as a building –
give me Chartres
any day – but so
sad to see all
that history
burning savagely.
But seriously,
grown men worked
there who believed
they had the
“Crown of thorns”?
Photographic memories
The young people,
whose photos
appear in
family albums,
somehow turn
into old people
looking wistfully
at those photos.
Fox in the hen house
Murdoch’s
strategy
ensures that
millions of
ignorant fools
are happy,
nay, delighted,
to be led by
ignorant fools.
Unfortunately, perhaps
In deciding
which memories
to keep and
which to discard
the mind has a
mind of its own.
Hidden
Fascism,
like cancer,
is never cured,
but only
goes into
remission
Coming up for air
Imagine
being there
when Oxygen
first filled
the air
and taking
the first breath.
Great-great-great….
It is
somehow
a comfort to me
to know that
my ancestry goes
back not
two hundred years
but two billion.
How could
it not be?
Or wtaf?
In 2019
the acronym
wtf?
is in
constant use.
Half time
Species that
hibernate
waste half of
their potential.
Homo sapiens
achieves the
same effect
by misogyny.
