Politicians are a group of people who make a good living by appeasing as many people as they can at the same time. Rarely do they go to troubled inner-city comprehensive schools, and the Oxbridge or other Ivy-league University degree is not geared to experiencing the lower societal strata, but more for leap-frogging to the… [Read more…]
July 23, 2011
Life moves on, we get older, and deal with all manner of trivialities associated with the passing of time. You get used to all of these differences, as you are confronted with them on a daily basis. The morning preen reveals the receding hairline; the wrinkles. A shower sees a proud rounded mass of manliness… [Read more…]
April 14, 2011
Language is like sort of biometric multi-pass from a Luc Besson Science fiction film. It tells us what people want to tell us. It also tells a great deal of what they don’t want to tell us. In fact, if you are even just a little bit perceptive, and critical, language tells you us who… [Read more…]
April 7, 2011
Recently, watching the nuclear drama unfold in Japan, I have been wondering why we as a race are so short-term. Will the human race cease to exist because we just can’t plan long-term? Will we allow the short-term of our thinking to become the length of our sojurn on planet earth? The dinosaurs were around… [Read more…]
March 28, 2011
Facebook. Some of my friends eshew it – a conspiracy of world domination. Others embrace it. Judging by the role FB has played in the middle east in the last few weeks, its probably not such a bad thing. And now to the subject of this post. Yesterday I made contact with an old friend… [Read more…]
March 15, 2011
Does the language we use form the thoughts that we make, or vice versa? I mean, do the words that we use define who we are? Does our language define us? Do we define our language? Look at the word “chair” It covers all single bits of furniture from those with arms to those without,… [Read more…]
March 3, 2011
I love it when non-British people watch Monty Pythons, and think that we have such a great sense of humor. What they fail to realize is that more often than not, this is simply a depiction of the lunacy of general British life. It still seems that owning a house in the UK is the only viable guarantee to… [Read more…]
December 6, 2010
Jobs, jobs, everyone is always talking about jobs: What do you do? Where do you do it? Do you have a well-paying job? Do you have an interesting job? Does your job make you hate your life from the comfort of your Porsche? Does your job make you love life from the discomfort of your… [Read more…]
November 5, 2010
He’s 74 years old, a media mogul, prime minister, and according to 28 year old Nadia Macri – full of the joys of spring. In fact, the Italian Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri, is rumored to have given Nadia 10,000 Euros in cash for certain spring-related services. Apparently in Sardinia, they do not have drug dealers… [Read more…]
November 1, 2010
I don’t know if anyone followed the Stephen Fry story today, about his statement that “Women Don’t like sex…” One thing Stephen is famous for is not being interested in women (in a sexual way), and very interested in the other sex (in a sexual way). The less empathetic (generally male) may point to this fact as… [Read more…]
August 21, 2011
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