Live while you are alive
The US government has dashed the hopes of companies eager to use drones to deliver packages by unveiling new draft rules stating that drone pilots must always be able to see the unmanned aircraft, and that they cannot fly over populated areas. The ruling comes as a particular blow to Amazon, which had hoped to …
To The Times The order of service at a wedding I attended last week contained a version of the Lord’s Prayer which I had not seen before. It read: “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from email.” Amen to that. Andrew Body, Ludlow, Shropshire
To The Independent I have suffered from philo-Semitism all my life, so I would like to counter the fear of anti-Semitism in the UK being stirred by Benjamin Netanyahu and others. Through no fault of my own (other than the double “n” in my name), I have been credited with the wisdom of Solomon, the …
It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his own true happiness. (Epicurus) I suppose there is something …
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Hypocrisy is alive and well. I refer to myself, a workaholic if there ever was one. A reader has sent the article below (from The Daily Telegraph in England), and I am recommending that everyone reads it (slightly shortened for people like me with short attention spans). Notwithstanding my own inability to stop and smell …
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