We’ve got a bit of a situation here: a genuine nine thousand foot celebration. All of us here I’m sure own all kinds of books: the ones on our shelves, of course, but also all the ones no longer on our shelves because we gave them away or lent them away or just plain lost [...]
In the responses to a Guardian article on the EU ban of the pesticide suspected of killing bees (which, typically, our blasted government, like the previous one somehow still thinks companies like Monsanto deserve agricultural sainthood, objected to) I found a link to this rather star(t)ling information. Which I dare say Gunnison might have something [...]
Just a rumor, of course, or maybe it was all a bad dream, kinda like the one in which I’m trying to set up a lucrative religious cult but can’t get past the fact that all my best recruits drive RVs, Audis and Range Rovers. The burning question, however, is this: Who among you has [...]
Most Americans probably don’t realize how divisive Thatcher was and remains in Britain. She never received anything like secular sainthood makeover that scrubbed most of the corners off Ronald Regean in the collective memory. But the only public person I’ve heard of (so far) dancing on her grave is George Galloway, who tweeted, according to [...]
Iain Banks will die of cancer. As Iain M Banks, he writes science fiction, the ‘Culture’ novels, of which Squirrel is a great admirer. For many years now, his ‘serious’ novels have alternated with what he calls his ‘skiffy’ ones, the last of which was published last year. He had, then, he said, ideas for [...]
Why? The photos. And the subtitle. Someday I’ll read the book. (If I can ever pull myself away from Piers Morgan, Melissa Harris-Perry and The Huffington Post.) Heidegger (1952): “The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” Heidegger (1933): “Let not propositions and ‘ideas’ be the rules of your being. [...]
In the Guardian today. Sarah Palin launched a blistering attack on President Obama and her own Republican party leaders on Saturday with an impassioned pitch to re-establish herself as a leading light of America’s conservative movement. The article continues: It was not all fireworks. Palin also showed her humorous touch when she cracked a joke about [...]
Now don’t frown. You know you’re panting to read it. :) :) The former Republican vice-presidential candidate has signed a deal to write her third book. After a memoir and a collection of speeches and writing about America, A Happy Holiday is a Merry Christmas will see Palin turn her attention to the over-commercialisation [...]
I found this on Facebook I know, I know. Interesting though They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & Sold to the tannery…….if you had to do this to survive you were “Piss Poor” But [...]
…..and by that I mean do modern liberal democracies, even within the constraints of constitution and law, place too much emphasis on sustaining individual freedom to behave, profit and consume as desired and as means allow?