Easy answer
The question is not why men went to the Moon but why they wanted to come back
poetry
Easy solutions
Homo sapiens will reject any solution to over- population and excess consumption that doesn’t involve killing the other species we share this small planet with, or killing the other humans we share this small planet with.
Riding down the highway
Fifty years since Easy Rider? Not been such an easy ride, has it?
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I read the news today, oh boy!
Paul McCartney is seventy seven and Ringo Starr is seventy nine? Wait a minute. I’ve lost fifty years somewhere. Anyone seen them?
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What’s in a context?
It is passing strange, is it not, that celebrity comments criticised in the media were always taken out of context, while those praised were always perfectly in context.
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Speak Strine
Never use two syllables when one will do; never use three syllables when two will do; never use four syllables.
Mindquake
We need a Richter scale for major personal events that rattle our core, shake our life, leave fissures in our psyche. Sometimes we can put books back on our mental shelves, replace broken windows, rebuild fallen walls. But sometimes the mind is left all out of joint forever.
Sapience
Religion is the proof you can get human beings to believe any nonsense; Science is the proof that you can’t
Whale Killers
Just when you think the Japanese are becoming more civilised the harpoons come out of storage and the seas boil with blood again
Card Sharp
I think I played the cards I was dealt as well as I could, but at times it was tempting to go for misere