The temptation to turn ever inwards.
A run of essays that, collectively, deeply disturb me. My seventieth birthday is fewer than six months away. Indeed, it will be just a little over two weeks after we celebrate the second anniversary of...
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The coming weeks are going to see some repeats! In yesterday’s post, I closed it by saying “More on the theme tomorrow.” What I had in mind was writing about a recent essay that I read; courtesy of...
View ArticleSelf-defeating habits.
The challenge in being objective. Before I move on to today’s essay, published courtesy of The Automatic Earth, let me ponder about the nature of reason. A quick dip into the dictionary offers this:...
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If you can, then there may be a job opportunity for you. Republished from Naked Capitalism. oooo Help Us Find a New WordPress Person Posted on July 13, 2014 by Yves Smith We are looking for a new...
View ArticleKevin Richardson – a repeat posting.
Taking a shortcut and reposting something from 2009 Yesterday, Sunday, was a quiet day. For several good reasons. Firstly, on Saturday evening Jean and I and eleven of our close neighbours enjoyed a...
View ArticleForgive the introspection, Part One
This is not some intellectual exercise; far from it! As often happens, a number of seemingly disconnected articles and reports seem to have provided a common theme. A theme that has previously been...
View ArticleWe live in interesting times!
The impending ‘banquet of consequences’. The Welcome page of this blog includes this: Dogs ‘teaching’ man to be so successful a hunter enabled evolution, some 20,000 years later, to farming, thence...
View ArticleRunaway Antarctica
Do you hear the turnstile about to click! Not so long ago I wrote a series of three posts under the titles of Interconnections One, Interconnections Two and, yes you guessed it😉 , Interconnections...
View ArticleSmoke and Mirrors
Let me start with a quotation: I’m not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen. James Lovelock The author of that quote is fellow Englishman, albeit a tad older than yours...
View ArticleTime marches on!
So we are now at the last day of July! In many ways this has been a strange month in a somewhat strange year! No, more than that! We are at last seeing climate change come to the fore in terms of...
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