Amazing how
arrogant most
religious people are,
thinking their strong,
unfounded, belief
in an imaginary
being, demands that
they control the lives
of everyone else, and
kill any who disagree.
Category: politics
Curses
More frightening
hot weather is
on its way.
All you can do
is hunker down,
wait it out,
hope for the best,
fear the worst.
And send a curse
at those who have
stopped all action
to prevent climate
change.
Dark stranger
Every New Year’s
Eve, we say to
ourselves – “Well
I hope next year
is better than this
year”. But, as every
New Year’s Day
rolls through the door,
we realise it was
probably
a forlorn hope
Small consolation
No repressive
government can
last forever, no
matter how
unlikely its end
can seem. But
it does great
damage to people
and land while
it continues
Losing their marbles
Heaven save me from
celebrities who seem
quite sane and
rational when young
but who in old age
become religious and
move hard right
politically and seem to
be mulling over joining
the Flat Earth Society
Numbers racket
How many stupid
and ignorant people
does it take to
destroy a planet?
I guess we’ll find
out pretty soon.
Hand on head instead?
What is it with
Americans putting
their hand on their
heart at solemn
occasions like the
funeral of an
ex-president?
They do know,
I suppose, that the
heart is just a lump
of muscle that
circulates blood?
I mean, we have known
for five hundred years
that the heart has
nothing to do with
emotions, so why
put your hand over it?
Of the people
Once upon a time
to be a politician
was to be the essence
of the polis, the people,
of being a human being.
In these times it seems
to be a politician is
to be ahuman, distant
from the polis,
removed from humanity,
removed so far indeed
as to be inhuman.
Disappointment
How sad it is when
we discover that a
writer, an artist, an
actor, a musician,
whom we have admired
and enjoyed,
believes in an
imaginary friend.
Valediction
I have never
had, in a long life
of creating ideas,
and things, a serious
review of any of it. No
serious consideration
of what was attempted,
what were the problems,
what was achieved.
But then you don’t get that
for your life itself
I suppose,
