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"A man goes into a tobacconist and gets a packet of cigarettes.... Warning: smoking causes cancer. No, give me a different pack... Smok...

Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River... Life is old there , older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze......

might regard art exhibitions as outrageous and blasphemous. On the other hand, the out-of-doors rock engravers might not.

Israel’s military is organising hiking tours for civilians in newly occupied Syrian territory during the Passover holiday, local media has r...

Jungian thoughts.   The truly holy are unappreciated. Holiness is not religious.  Nor can happiness come from seeking. from application; it...

Will the intelligence manufactured by power-hungry, nuclear-fired iron man become aware of the inorganic irony of its existence ?

It's the most distressful country that ever yet was seen; they're hanging men and women there for the wearing of the green. Ireland ...

Deep in the rainforest of Sumatra,   a wise orang-utan whom humans call Rakus has been observed making and then applying a plant-based medic...

happiness should be communal, though for me it is hermetic. For the economic system it must only be cosmetic.

Northern Ireland, which, according to a British Government Committee “recently held the world record for prescribing the most anti-depressan...

Primary-age child constipation rates up 60% in England and Wales.

Having had, like any intellectual, some sympathy with the writings (but not the actions) of The Unabomber , I applaud The Great Donald's...

which rests on humility : an easy-going nature." ~ Sylvia Townsend-Walker, Mr Fortune's Maggot, 1927, first page. On page 32 is an...

 

dispensing clichés of petty comfort, descriptions of beauty, or gobbets of private pain to the normals. Poets should rage against the evil o...

on the Isle of Skye a Very Long Time Ago.

with apologies to Margaret Tempest. Moldy Warp dreams of Van Gogh's Chair.

 "Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things, the honest thief, the tender murderer." ~ Robert Browning.

parenthood as a hungry monster...

  Max Ayres: Self-portrait.

No wonder D.T. hates him.

It's not just North Americans who seem unaware that the faster you speak the less your audience will hear and retain.

nonsense sociological concept : Genetic Talent.

Every week, Bastián Barria ventures into the Atacama desert in northern  Chile  looking for items of discarded clothing in the sand.  About ...

The rapid expulsion from Paradise that has been reported to us is worse than a parody of the immeasurably-long development of human self-con...

 English actor and comédienne ,

for a baby mammoth in the Siberian cold of 50,000 years ago. "Who knows how The Future will unfold ?"

At one time it was normal for a picture's frame to cost more than the picture. * You don't yet actually have to wheedle information ...

just a hunch that human stupidity is more often learned (by rote or by example) than inherited.

photo by Brian Grover  

    a bar, restaurant and chamber-concert venue     (see below)     frequented a generation later by Brahms      (who had his own barrel of ...

Big Technology = Technocracy. Bureaucracy depends on literacy, numeracy, and – most basically – on hierarchy and its progenitor, the family.

"Often it haps, that sorrowes of the mynd Find remedie unsought, which seeking cannot fynd." ~ Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, ...

by Hicham Benohoud  

can we observe that The Age of Aquarius would slowly 'transition to' The Age of Resentment.

is an existence worth the living, while the quest for perfection creates hell on earth.

Diane Seuss wrote that Silence has a roundness like an apple   which is why Eve and Adam were expelled to shout and shriek and scream and ba...

our knowing~ is our criminality.

perhaps the only one of us who is not criminal and does not tread on misery is the most deprived – and s/he is already dead.  

is  ALEKSANDR SKOBOV DAY . 

a book by its cover." I bought this book mainly for its cover.  

(or IMDb) is scarcely more international (let alone internationalist ) than Donald Trump. Its highest-rated film is a Batman production, and...

  French scientist denied US entry  after officers find phone messages criticising Trump... US Environmental Protection Agency Trump adminis...

that the unpatented pharmaceutical Conium maculatum, commonly known as Hemlock , 100% natural (may have contained honey)) was the medicine w...

that Chopin was introduced to George Sand by Victor Hugo , poet, painter and author of Les Misérables . Hugo: My Destiny

became quite buzzy in the late 1960s, but, interestingly, in these days buzzing with tales of 'Artifical Intelligence', lateral thin...

(or even a religious) question than a horticultural one: why do variegated plants appeal to us so much ? * And so inspiringly to Gerard Manl...

to his compositions. But I am very pleased that he was not the syphilitic colonialist paedophile that over- passionate feminists have tried ...

precede the Elephant in the room ? Wikipedia does not tell us the answer to a question and a story worthy of the great Irish writer  Flann ...

Cyanea capillata  by Alexander Semenov