Refugee
A female Magpie with a sore leg has taken up residence in our garden, using it as a place of sanctuary.
politics
When the cap fits
I’ve always found it useful, in evaluating politicians, male and female, to see if I can picture them wearing a Nazi SS uniform.
Not Fascism. Not Communism.
The most effective system ever devised for controlling people for the purposes of the ruling class in a society is religion.
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If you didn’t already
Seeing the number of views on all the click-bait conspiracy theory YouTube videos would make you despair of the human race.
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Last post
All over the world fascists are rising like zombies from the ground at the sound of the first Trump.
Peter Principle Pollies
All politicians have been promoted beyond their level of competence.
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Higher and higher
We should spend our lives trying to increase the ratio of things we want to be remembered for to things we don’t want to be remembered for.
Progress
One of the historical periods people often say they would have liked to live in is Tudor/Elizabethan England. Indeed I might have said it myself once – drama, adventure, new parts of world being discovered, religion changing, noble wars, science beginning – but not any more. The major feature of the period was the random
Do you remember ….?
The world gradually forgets pieces of history the way an old man gradually loses parts of his memory.
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