The public don’t know this: since 2003 Iraq has set a world record in suicide bombings. The 1000 suicide attacks are more than double the number of similar attacks carried out by members of Hamas in Israel, Hizbollah in Lebanon and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka put together.   There were no known suicide attacks …
The British eat 97 % of the world’s baked beans (fact). Baked beans are very Epicurean. They should be eaten at dead of night by torchlight under the blankets in boarding school dormitories. Eaten at breakfast time they are the wrong color and are boring. Epicurus himself would have been a baked bean lover. This …
If it is true that gentlemen prefer bimbos to educated career women with brains, how is it that there seem to be no extra bimbos being born into this world? And another thing – – if men tend to marry the pretty girls and not the plain ones, how is that……… Just asking. On a …
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Tasers are supposed to disable people without causing long-term harm. In the US during the last 12 months there have been 260 deaths apparently attributed to Tasers. The attitude of some is, “You shouldn’t be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Tough.” Alternatively, others seem to think, “You must have done something wrong …
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” * If being an Epicurean means anything it must mean thinking for yourself . I live in a city where there is one readable newspaper. One goes to dinner parties and one hears the issues and …
