Wages of sin
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.
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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
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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,
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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,