Sylvia Shawcross In the ghastly world in which we live—a world that may be flat or not with a moon that we may have visited or not that is filled with males and females or not, etc. etc. etc.—there exists a whole bunch of fear about things we probably don’t need to be afraid of …
Catte Black, with illustrations by JR Leach Once upon a time in a land far away and in a time of plenty there were two rich and prosperous Landlords who each owned large and spacious adjoining buildings wherein many people lived. The apartments were warm and comfortable and every week there was a market where …
Sylvia Shawcross There are four types of people in the world. Well, in this world anyway. Now, the first type of person looks at the world and asks “Why?” They gnash their teeth and glare glumly at the sidewalk as they mournfully make their way to work, convinced of their own impotence to change the …
Memes are back again this week, for our quarter-century edition. Yes, it’s already been 25 collections of memes…hasn’t the time just flown by? Well, not for us, but for some people I’m sure. Probably the ones who aren’t doing memes. …shall we crack on? 1. As you’d expect there’s some pretty fertile meme-soil surrounding Liz …
Sylvia Shawcross Ah the scientists. Bless their happy little hearts I always say. Having known a few of them and dealt with them on occasion I have to admit, they are a breed apart. I would even go so far as to say, that when it comes to working for a living, you’d not meet …
Sylvia Shawcross I don’t know what we’re all complaining about. Truly. The world is just so ripe with tremendous opportunities. We know this because Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State, US, in responding to the Nordstream pipeline sabotage called it a “tremendous opportunity” to finally wean Europe off oil and gas.* I think he said Russian …
And the memes just keep on coming. It is August after all – the silly season – and we can all use any holiday we can get. Even just a holiday from taking things seriously. 1. This basically works for “how does anything become anything”. I’m also sure there’s a pun about “bills” to be …
Sylvia Shawcross Well, here we are—living in the New Abnormal in the first world nations trying to figure out what to do with those little plastic tabs they put on milk cartons without being wasteful because God knows that even though “they” say “they” recycle things who really believes “they” are going to recycle those …
Rabbi Michoel Green The Nuremberg Code just died after a lengthy illness. Covid has been identified as the official cause of death, but pundits claim that the Code was actually struggling with terminal illness for the past three years, even before the Wuhan virus made its debut. Numerous factors contributed to the Code’s demise, but …
Sylvia Shawcross Now, as the crimes against humanity mount in a world on the precipice of colossal change, our hope lies in Artificial Intelligence. This is the way it will have to be I’m afraid because obviously Natural Intelligence has failed us miserably. I mean, look at the bloody great mess we’re all in all …
