Live while you are alive
Why do supermarkets make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front? Why do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke? Why do banks leave vault doors open and then chain the pens to the …
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Were you a harmless, nameless tree, just standing there, Motionless and proud, your boughs spread wide, The product of a hundred fruitful summers, Surviving the convulsions of Caribbean hurricanes, Cold fronts and brisk north winds, You might neither notice nor much care about The arrival, perching quietly, of yet another bird. Thousands stop from year …
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“Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?” – Benny Hill Very clever, but my serious point of views is as follows: we should only bring into the world human beings that are wanted, cherished, loved ….and in due course educated. A woman should always be allowed to …
(Keeping off the current dire threat to the country and what it stands for….. ………………… Thirteen thousand years ago, a woman made her way across mudflats with a small child whom she sometimes carried in her arms. Nothing of her remains – except her footprints: stretching for almost a mile across the White Sands National …
“If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.” – George Burns
“Price gouging in the US pharmaceutical drug industry goes back more than three decades. “In 1985 US Representative Henry Waxman, chair of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, accused the pharmaceutical industry of “gouging the American public” with “outrageous” price increases, driven by “greed on a massive scale.” “Even in the wake of …
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Nearly two-thirds of childless British single adults aged 20-34 have either never left the family home, or have moved back into it, according to new research into the “boomerang” generation. There are now an estimated 3.5 million young single adults living with their parents in the UK, a third more than a decade ago. (The …
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Happy holidays to all the readers of Epicurus.Today! May everything calm down May the hungry be fed May the US Constitution survive and even be strengthened May the welfare of the citizens take precedence over political advantage May the new Administration take over peacefully and may it be successful. May everyone get vaccinated and the …
“Humanius est deridere vitam quam deplorare”. Laugh at life, don’t cry over it. (Seneca the Younger, “De Tranquillitate Animi”, IIi, 8)
At the end of the 4th Century A.D Ammianus complained that the Roman Empire had lost its cultural moorings and had descended into a state of triviality, where scholarship was no longer respected and fewer and fewer people read anything at all. (Sound familiar?)
The Egret A snow-white egret passes our cottage By the Gumbo Limbo and the Traveller trees. With its ballet dancer’s step and mobile neck It reminds me of something…… Ah, yes! Alice playing croquet in Wonderland, Striking the hedgehog with the flamingo’s head. Like Alice’s flamingo the egret’s head moves Restlessly back and forth, In …
Ecosystem collapse a risk in one fifth of the world’s countries The spread of intensive farming threatens to jeopardize the world’s chances of meeting the term of the Paris agreement on the climate crisis. Nitrous oxide is given off by the overuse of artificial fertilizers, and by organic sources such as animal manure, and has …
Comedian Bill Bailey is deeply serious about wildlife. He campaigns for various animal charities, and his home in west London doubles up as an informal animal sanctuary. It’s a passion that has led him into some bizarre situations. On a tour of China in 2012, for instance, he was invited to a restaurant where Eurasian …
I was ruminating about self-image – my own in this case – and reflecting on its importance. The idea of oneself emerges as one grows up. Does it stay with you all your life? I suppose this varies from person to person. The purpose of this is to encourage the reader to examine honestly his …
The scientist Stan Cox, in his 2018 book “Losing Our Cool”, blames air con for “resource waste, climate change, ozone depletion and the disorientation of the human mind and body”. Air conditioning emits some half a billion tonnes of CO2 annually, and the coolants used are even more polluting than CO2. Air conditioners fuel a …
