Trumped
Democracy – a country run by its best people. Fascism – a country run by its worst people.
History
Risk
Russia wants Ukraine and Belarus China wants Taiwan and Tibet North Korea wants South Korea Trump wants Greenland and Canada ROLL THE DICE
Age old
When you are young you think, wrongly, that your current pleasant state of health and fitness and mental acuity and a sense of boundless possibilities in the life ahead, will last forever. When you are old the opposite of all that is true.
What rough beast
The most important function of the internet is to quantify the incredible level of mental illness among the owners, content providers, and subscribers of the world. Time was you would only encounter such madness in letter writers to newspapers, or men standing on a platform in a park on a Sunday, or in the pulpit.
Less than unqualified
Just like Australia (Abbott, Morrison), America (Reagan, Bush jr) has had its share of leaders with IQs approaching negative territory. Damaging to a country but not completely wrecking it, and recoverable when positive IQs return to the leader\’s desk. But in Trump America has found a uniquely malignant leader with a combination of -IQ, total
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Lower learning
As of yesterday Australia now has 4 tertiary institutions with that most oxymoron of all oxymoron names \”Religious Unviversity\”. It must be time for me to give up on the country in despair.
Snakes in the grass
Some time ago, oh, I don\’t know, 30 years perhaps, I was moving a small flock of sheep from one area to another. They were well-behaved sheep and easy to work, so they were just moving in a clump before me as I absentmindedly walked behind them. Suddenly I became aware that the flock had
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Some time, never…
Has anyone in real life (not the movies) ever said, in response to some pereceived danger, \”oh well, gotta die some time\”? Of course not, yet somehow script writers have people speaking this sentence all the time.