So the Irish have discovered O’Bama, and claim him as one of theirs! Standard procedure for all presidential candidates. But isn’t it becoming a bit of a bore, this discovery of Irish roots? Isn’t a much more interesting story the fact that he comes from Kenya, where the Rift Valley was the birthplace of homo …
The Queen of England came and went, and most of the comment was about her hats and how to curtsey to her. A pity. The Queen is by far and away the best Head of State in the world. She has been at the job since 1953, conscientious and uncomplaining. She has met and talked …
“On the face of things, better conditions should lead to larger families, not smaller ones. However, it is impossible to argue with the facts, and the facts are that the rate of population increase is dropping, and that the drop is correlated with increases in personal economic well-being.” Geoffrey Carr, Science editor of the Economist, …
"The world boils down to a savage desire for status". A comment attributed to Tom Wolfe. The world boils down to…"a never-ending contest to make others submit to your partisan view of the good, all deriving, ultimately, from the thumos, the force that connects our base needs to our intellect, and unites men in factions …
“…since 9/11 CEOs of the leading military contractors have enjoyed a doubling of their annual compensation. The top 34 defense executives alone made a total of nearly a billion dollars in the past four years”. Sarah Anderson of IPS
