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December 2011
..election campaign characterised by profound shallowness and intellectual mediocrity by both political parties and the media, I wrote …..“Many years ago I recollect seeing in scratchy black and white an interview between Walter Cronkite and an aging Dean Acheson who had been the Secretary of State in the Truman Administration. He had played a central…
Christmas actually
But not for me, however, given that the few tools I had possessed unique migratory habits, flying with the Terns and Godwits to Siberia and beyond; this would leave Bunning’s unique selling proposition looming very large and very empty. Which leads me to Christmas and the inevitable “Wadja wunt” (which is etymologically related to “Emma…
Accumulation
Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..It’s bad enough having stuff thrust upon me, but when I actively seek to bring more of it into the house, I begin to wonder at my sanity. Afterall, I’ve already got a whole lot more stuff than I can handle and only a tiny house – something’s gotta go!…
The Interview
.. nylon-string guitar for instance sounds unnervingly ambivalent and jangly as a result, especially in the top three strings. Not to mention that my right ear is so shot to pieces that I prefer to wear an ear plug rather than a hearing aid when I’m playing or listening to even slightly amplified music, as…
The robots are coming
..of the words, foolproof and incapable of error……’ has come to me from every electronic device I have tried to live with culminating in the locked-down ‘we know so very, very much better than you’ world of Apple. We have become inured to the sights and sounds of assembly lines dominated by robots, one or…
Loaves and fishes..
..shaped. Firstly came the issue of who should be invited. The number of elders has not changed; in fact it has sadly decreased by one since last year, but the number of children and grandchildren has grown, if not exponentially, at least arithmetically. We are unique amongst the group in only having the one daughter…