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Mar
Category Archives: life
An inaccurate, biased Amnesty report?
11
Feb
Here’s another Facebook exchange. This one’s about the publication on February 1st of the Amnesty International Report, Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity. Download the report here. Though 280 pages long, a lot can … Read More »
Whose bass guitar gently wept?
9
Feb
Like most of my generation I’m a flat out Beatles fan. See The Fab Four: a very personal view. That post segues into a video of classical composer Howard Goodall, a gifted communicator of music’s more technical aspects to lay … Read More »
“We have evidence” is not evidence!
7
Feb
The mainstream view, sometimes conscious and explicit but usually unconscious and implicit, is that the West has the moral authority to lead the world. Five centuries of exploiting the global south say otherwise. ONE nation is circling the planet with … Read More »
Ukraine: maps, history, duff reasoning ..
30
Jan
In case I haven’t made this clear, I take the Ukraine situation very, very seriously. Not that I deem war inevitable or even probable. (There’s too much smoke ‘n mirror stuff here for anyone to call with justifiable confidence. ) … Read More »
Mini Gems good – Midget Gems baad!
14
Jan
Yesterday in the Metro (also in Daily Mail, Independent, Times, Sun and – ta-da! – Wakefield Express) … Marks and Spencer has become the first high street retailer to relabel Midget Gems over complaints the name is outdated. A disability campaigner … Read More »
Mike on Mingus
13
Jan
Mike at a Papa Soul bash … Read More »
Do dolphins flick the bean?
11
Jan
Bottlenose dolphins have been observed in group orgies, using snouts, flippers and flukes to rub the protruding clitorises and penises of their peers. Direct stimulation of the clitoris has also been observed in sexual interactions between only females. We can’t scan … Read More »
Planting flowers for 2022
9
Jan
The other day I liked – both in the FB and literal sense – the post of a friend who’d offered this image. But isn’t it incompatible with the image I posted a few days ago? Only if we have … Read More »
Caesar salad
8
Jan
[ezcol_1third]Thanks to my Facebook pal, David Paul Jacobs, for this. Eat, chew, Brutus?[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end][/ezcol_2third_end] And thanks to another FB pal, Michael Stowell, for this. *