Sore loser at the Grand National
7
Mar
Category Archives: life
More bad thinking on real injustice
24
Feb
It’s getting to be a bit of a habit, this. Me taking issue with poor arguments to support beliefs I broadly share. Here’s the latest culprit, spied today on FB. * See also my post of December 6.
Twenty years of schooling and …
18
Feb
… they put you on the day shift. B. Dylan, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner.
Do bear cubs dance in the woods?
17
Feb
Sure they do. In Finland at any rate. I’d love high resolution images but these will have to do. Full story here …
So I called my wife …
13
Feb
… and I said to her, would you kindly tell to me, whose is that head upon my bed, where my own head should be?
Coffee Grounds for Divorce …
10
Feb
… grounds too for mariticide
Ecocide: the Mullah Nasruddin speaks!
4
Feb
ONE MORNING in the summer of 2007 saw me in my daughter’s Edinburgh flat, taking in the wisdoms of Sir Jonathan Porritt as set out in an Independent piece on saving the environment. The plain truth, he was giving me … Read More »
Pullman Coaches on Oxford Comma
29
Jan
It’s a tale of two Philips. Oxford commas, not to be confused with learned lepidopterans, also come in handy when list items house subclauses which may themselves contain the conjunctives and or or: Oxford Colleges include Magdalen, ‘Maudlin’ to the … Read More »
It’s a flying shame!
20
Jan
My December Reads included a piece by Jan Oberg, which I introduced as “capturing my sense of fear and outrage on what has been done to Syria in the risible name of humanitarianism”. He’s done it again with a FB … Read More »
Cui bono?
15
Jan