The lifeless body of the 2 year old Aylan Kurdi lying face down on a beach has caused outrage around the world (I have shown him here alive and laughing, as he may well be in heaven as I write).  Little Aylan was drowned with his brother and their mother as they tried to make […]

Following my previous post, I see that the first two females have graduated from the rigorous U.S. Army Rangers program, which has the reputation for the toughest training regimen out there.  Well, we may presume that it just got a little less tough, for I have difficulty believing that the women can do everything the […]

Quo vadis, blogger?  Or, roughly translated, why, bother, blogger? Why blog indeed?  There are myriads of blogs out there, and one more may not make that much difference, so why? Aristotle said that intention is first in the order of execution; we must ask why we are doing something, for there is always a ‘why’, […]