Lifestyle topics
What is the point of this blog? For a long time I went daily onto the Yahoo Epicurean discussion site. One can learn a lot from the contributors, some of whom are very knowledgeable and interesting. In no way would I wish to disparage the contributions, and indeed admire the main players very much. However, …
The US government is compiling dossiers on regular travellers, including the contents of their luggage. An investigative tool, the Department of Homeland Security calls it. I am, regrettably, a regular traveller to that nest of Islamists, Britain. In the interests of full disclosure, let me list some of the items I invariably travel with, so …
Yesterday, finishing off repair work in the bathroom, I spent at least ten minutes looking for the screwdriver I had been using. I searched high and low, and recruited my wife to help me look. It seemed to have vanished. Then I looked again. It had been in my left hand all the time. Now …
…and whenever Allah wishes ill to his servants He appoints their foolish ones as governors and their ignorant ones as judges….. Shaddad ibn Amr ibn Aus
The regulation of monopolies is a necessary part of the efficient working of modern capitalism. Discuss.
