My wife and I went back to a favourite haunt this week, to discover that everything changes, but it all remains the same. The venue is in the hills 20 kilometres north of the walled city of Carcassonne, near the where the Spanish/French Border meets the Mediterranean. We discovered La Chateau Villatade winery there, a…
Month: May 2023
Politics, Social Commentary
(London)Derry
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Just to put everyone in the picture, my heritage is Irish. Northern Ireland Loyalist Protestant to be exact, but that never meant anything to me. I always thought of myself as just Irish. The Troubles took up most of my adult life, and I always found it difficult to think that the people I knew…
Social Commentary
Gambling on Sports
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There are a few practices in our society that many people think should be part of our freedom to act how we choose, and which also seem to fulfill a need in humans. So why not? Prostitution comes to mind. Gambling in all its forms is another. The why not is because somehow in their…
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Don’t Run Away from a Falling Tree.
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What with climate change and storms and all that, your chances of getting hit by a falling tree have gone from 1 in 1,000,000 to 1 in 200.000, or some incomprehensible number like that. As such, it behooves us all to learn what to do and not to do when a tree falls near us.…
Social Commentary
Social Causes of Violence
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There has been a lot of breast-beating in the media recently because of the upswing in violent crime. Ever since the COVID epidemic, instances of racially motivated attacks have grown. Especially disturbing recently is the rising number of random attacks on strangers. Why is this happening, and what should we do about it? Well,…