Apparently the Bush Administration is trying to redefine contraception as abortion. Are there no lengths to which these people will not go?  The world is over-populated, there is not enough food, oil and raw materials to go round the 8 billion people, and there are still such ostriches with their superstitious heads in the sand. …
In his new 464 page book “Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century‘, the ubiquitous and prolific Tony Judt says:” Both liberal and neocon thinking has suffered from an ingrained provincialism that, when combined with grandiose schemes for rebuilding the world on the American model, helped to precipitate the foreign policy disasters of the Bush …
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The processing capacity of a typcal desktop computer is 25 billion instructions per second. For the average human brain the figure is 100 trillion (trillon?). So why is everyone around me so slow on the uptake? Witty repostes welcome.
Over half of U.S. voters reject the idea that public service is better than working in the private sector, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Only one out of six voters view work for the government as a higher calling.  (Rasmussen Reports, July 5th) I read somewhere a month or two ago …
In a book called “The Verneys“* by Adrian Tinniswood (highly recommended) he quotes the following entertaining story from the 17th Century: Thomas Sydenham, a Parliamentary cavalry officer and also a prominent doctor, had an aristocratic patient with deep depression, which nothing seemed to cure. The good doctor interviewed the patient in London and referred him …
