I am ready to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great
ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great
ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
By Winston Churchill - most of my bosses could not disagree less with Winnie aka British Bulldog
Latitude rumours are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact.
Latitude rumours are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact.
Der Spiegel journalist messed with the wrong small town Medium.
Four months after losing the leadership spill he instigated, Peter Dutton has broken his silence in an extraordinary spray at Malcolm Turnbull.
Political Revenge Served Cold?
'He ruled it like a cult': inside drug crop enforcer's brutal regime
The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun Citylab.com
Although he played up his eccentricities in public, Edward Gorey was a shy, private man who took perverse pride in the dullness of his own existence Gorey
The shackles of moral perfection. Both utilitarianism and rationalism, embraced fully, create servants. The nonmoral parts of life make us who we are Who Are We
International books-of-the-year lists
Among international books-of-the-year lists we now also have:
“Puns about German sausage are generally considered the worst.” A new philosophical study of comedy is not immune to punmanship... Yammer of Puns
In the Valley of Fear London Review of Books
'It's complicated': how your NYE celebrations are being privatised
Meet Rooster Girl, the rooster-crowing magpie who has won the hearts of rescue volunteers. Magpiesare known and loved for their flute-like sounds, but not Rooster Girl — the rescued magpie prefers to crow like a rooster, hence the name.
If just if... If we’re not happy with the new path we’re being walked down, it is up to us to let our councils know what we think about it.
Joseph O’Donoghue is head of memberships at Keep Sydney Open.
Four months after losing the leadership spill he instigated, Peter Dutton has broken his silence in an extraordinary spray at Malcolm Turnbull.
Political Revenge Served Cold?
NEWS YOU CAN USE: You’re Probably Pouring Oil the Wrong Way
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: What a sex worker can teach us about human connection.
Some of y’all disappoint me. If you watched the video, as I strongly suspect some commenters didn’t, it’s about loneliness, not really about sex at all.
'He ruled it like a cult': inside drug crop enforcer's brutal regime
The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun Citylab.com
The Chart That Broke Our Brains Data for Progress (UserFriendly)
Heal Talk: A Rational Discussion about Race, Imposed Identities and Social Constructs Ghion Journal )
Should poetry be political? For the longest time, the answer was no. Then came 9/11, and a change in the artistic psycheGirlfriend’s retired coal miner grandfather, unprompted, out of nowhere:“Everyone in the country should make $70,000 a year. No more, no less. And that’s it”— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) December 25, 2018
Although he played up his eccentricities in public, Edward Gorey was a shy, private man who took perverse pride in the dullness of his own existence Gorey
The Problem With Trying To Be Morally Perfect
Can the moral saint, if perfect, ‘waste’ time watching films and television? How about spending any money on fine food or travel? Or expending energy on sport rather than seriously important causes? Or going birdwatching or hiking? No time either for theatre or the pleasures of curling up with a good book. The problem with extreme altruism, as Oscar Wilde is reported to have said about socialism, is that it takes up too many evenings. – Aeon
Pleasure and expertise. Those who play tennis well or cook well experience a kind of pleasure unavailable to others. Is the same true for those who read well? Well Who Knew?
The shackles of moral perfection. Both utilitarianism and rationalism, embraced fully, create servants. The nonmoral parts of life make us who we are Who Are We
International books-of-the-year lists
Among international books-of-the-year lists we now also have:
- The best Canadian fiction of 2018 at CBC
- "Some of our leading authors' favourite books of 2018" at the (South African) Sunday Times, in: Books of the year 2018
- The Brittle Paper Booklover's Guide: African Books of 2018
- "A shelf-load of Australian writers" select: The best books of 2018 ... and a few more as well at the Sydney Morning Herald, and Nicole Abadee selects The 17 best books of 2018 at the Australian Financial Review
- Los mejores libros españoles de 2018 at El Mundo -- where they agree with El País (see my previous mention) and say Manuel Vilas' Ordesa tops the lot