I’ll expand this when I have more time, but it serves as a starting point. I really should get round to writing an article on denialism, notably including global warning. For the moment though, the main focus of this post is on the plastic aspect of it all. In parts of the world’s oceans are […]
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Baffled by what the Brexit Party are doing, and more to the point, what they NOT doing, I send them the following letters: Hi, I see you STILL do not have a list of candidates. This is top on the news you scrapped around half of your candidates. Candidates who put themselves forward, possibly put
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It had been snowing all night. So at … 8:00 I made a snowman. 8:10 A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn’t make a snow woman. 8:15 So, I made a snow woman 8:17 My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman’s voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere 8:20 The
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The state of parliament and the Brexit coup d’état I contend that the current House of Commons is filled with lackeys of febrile wit. That being so, who is pulling all the strings? The answer, at least on a gross level is obvious: ‘big business’ multi-nationals, the EU, the banks, ‘the establishment’, the media, lobby
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This post: circa 1,400 words, estimated reading time: 7 minutes Criminalising a smack on the leg The Telegraph and others are currently covering Scotland’s proposed law to make smacking your child a criminal offence. e.g. I smacked my four-year-old – does that make me a criminal? People that make these laws are, IMO, pretty clueless.
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Who should you vote for, and why, or rather why not? In many ways this will be a rambling post*, and in as many more ways, pointless. It seeks to steer your vote one way (“my way”, of course), while pointing out that voting is based on tribalism, laziness, and often monumental ignorance, and acknowledges
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Remoaners never miss a chance, do they. Any and all negatives about the EU – the riots and protests in Brussels, in Spain, all across France, are ignored, are whitewashed by mainstream media. Project Fear is promoted as the future, as a cast-iron truth, and not, as it really is, as an almost impossible worst
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This post: circa 4,500 words, estimated reading time: 22 minutes Childhood lessons: bad code A recent inspirational quote on Tiny Buddha, on Facebook, began: “You are not responsible for the programming you received in childhood”. Adding: “But as an adult, you are 100% responsible for fixing it.” My reply, shared below, was that it is
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