Mental illness has become massively over-diagnosed in recent decades, partly due to Big Pharma’s tendency to play on doctors’ natural instincts to help people in distress. True depressive illness is far less common than cancer and, like schizophrenia, affects perhaps 1% of the population. The unfortunate sufferers of these brain diseases experience more, not …
Henning Mankell, in his book called “Depths”. Epicureans respect the lives of others around them and realize that others have busy lives. If you make a a firm arrangement or an appointment, it is rude and selfish not to be on time (of course, those who are genuinely held up by accidents etc. are, mmh, …
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A Microsoft investigation has found that malware, including viruses, are being installed in PCs on factory production lines by cybercriminals. Buying and testing computers in China, investigators discovered viruses including Nitol, which facilitates access to bank accounts. There! I knew it. They come out of the factory messed up, and when you ask them to …
The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire wrote a small book of memoirs called “Home to Roost”. Among other things she talks about the way the language has changed in her lifetime. Great Scott, By Jove, vamp, scram, mannequin, blighter, shut-eye, copper and bobby (for policeman)’, swank, spiffing, top-hole, cold cream and vanishing cream have disappeared from …
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The policy of this blog is not to get involved in party politics. Epicurus was very definite about that, although good citizens ought to be informed and vote. The warnings of Epicurus, however, were reinforced recently by the US Vice-Presidential candidate, Paul Ryan. Ryan claimed that his “personal best” in a Marathon run in 1990 …
