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color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> "The first proper book I ever got when I was a boy was the Sherlock Holmes short stories from my grandfather. I actually made my parents buy me a deerstalker and I used to wear it around Kettering, and was obviously beaten up daily – <u>and rightly so</u>." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: x-small; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">[my underlining]</span></p><p>– <i>Richard Coles, English broadcaster and author, </i>in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/16/the-rev-richard-coles-a-death-in-the-parish-interview" target="_blank">The Observer</a>. </p><p><br /></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-58979555306498534182024-03-16T16:00:00.000-07:002024-03-16T16:00:00.127-07:00What if<p>Adam was an apple-tree,<br />and Eve a cutting from his rib<br />(or something)<br />– which was why she was<br />so fond of apples ?</p><p><br /></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-58296673068716117992024-03-16T04:30:00.000-07:002024-03-16T04:30:00.127-07:00Not an Accident.<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzoFsEv0XLXPbinJoUkiLB7ZKem1lClCYTrU50CR42f3F0BqgNGIF3NGy4en5UZ33ckOHYhBnYZo_kdJyXp06ptTapVZ37x0-RdZio06ceYmlevSVAseaorYx4Grpfts6mTLD4CxsjLNjcVBZeSXJkWb1k0ETPby53I_tGHrZwbF3Y6aBdF5Bf0HbQHSKC/s1400/Tesla3.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1594" data-original-width="1960" height="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic8B5QDej_FBL_Nofe2KxmglKHiT4W6tIS01Wn_H7OJVzf4sePAmK_26Rz8QTT9TSFWW77fKz0UABl57iV4qboYX1KXvlWEU_MNyJJiZcvMIH5Q2tNF6Wrqj8b5t_Urx56shxlARDaG67cdizoUvTOiQUlB0E2nwcwaTQJihPtgbZ_EoaIDuo1sBGNTErr/w504-h409/DogMoon.jpg" width="504" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>continued</i> <b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/mar/15/tiktok-is-it-destroying-the-minds-of-a-generation" target="_blank">here</a></b> <b>></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-57553409824003778322024-03-14T16:00:00.000-07:002024-03-14T16:00:00.136-07:00Mille Regretz*.<p>I rather wish that there would be <br />some sort of brief hereafter<br />(not one full of floaty joy<br />and tedious laughter)<br />where I could <i>say</i> <i>sorry</i><br />to my aunt and mother<br />for my egotistical, <a href="https://www.beyond-the-pale.uk/egregious.htm" target="_blank">egregious</a>, <br />distressing, semi-autistical, <br />juvenile behaviour.</p><p>*<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The title of a famous song by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X20qeNOgta8" target="_blank">Josquin des Prez</a>.</span></i></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">see also:<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/kurt-godel-his-mother-and-the-argument-for-life-after-death">kurt g</a></span><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><u>ö</u></span><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/kurt-godel-his-mother-and-the-argument-for-life-after-death" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">del - his mother and the argument for life after death</a></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Gödel's belief that he had proved the existence of an afterlife hung on his belief in the soul: an idea or fancy (of the visible and solid continuing forever invisible and immaterial) </i></span><i style="font-size: small;">which has become belief. The further belief that humans are the only beings to have souls is even more unprovable and could be seen as mere (or desperate ?) religious (anthropocentric) arrogance.</i></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Might a soul be acquired (like divine grace or the unearthing of a truffle) ? Might some people/animals/trees have souls and others not.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Could a soul be lost (like a pair of glasses or a shoe) ? Could one trade it in a pact as Faust did ? Could it be shared ? Could it become a tumour, or diseased and die independently of the person/animal/tree who housed it ? </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Is a soul conscious ? Is it just another word for consciousness ? Does it have feeling ? It is hard to imagine an emotionless consciousness. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>If we don’t have souls, what could constitute an afterlife ?</i></span></p><p><i style="font-size: small;">Even if we do have souls, more questions are raised: how long would an afterlife last ? Might it simply be the persistence of a quantum of energy…or would it be an expansion like a galaxy ?</i></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Could there be a half-afterlife ? Might there be more than one ?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>If so, might they be a series of Russian dolls, or discrete existences ? What constitutes an existence in this context ?</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></i></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Gödel moves from the belief in the existence of an afterlife to the assumption that he would have a <u>particular</u> afterlife wherein he would see his mother again? But an afterlife may be private, temporary, or simply full of too many people to locate particular loved ones!</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The concept of the soul raises far more questions than it answers.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">When we die, we don't even leave a space behind us.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-87749433408895314042024-03-13T16:00:00.000-07:002024-03-13T16:00:00.135-07:00Mariolatry.<p>The word <i>Marry</i> appears quite often<br />in Shakespeare's plays, prefacing a sentence<br />and meaning sometimes <i>Indeed!</i> but more often<br />just an attention-catching word like <i>Look!</i></p><p>It is a short form of <i>By the Virgin Mary!</i><br />and disappeared in Cromwell's Commonwealth, <br />if not before.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHEG5NY59PpjLIdN-ZtlSIue6rPz7OYz_HX2OVDkIQ1zf1uH375ExRkyjdJ8YFw7X8VatXskKk1RH8O6Plun0J05nDMzczkNyhqX9uGVHjUK00nQMIVlEFjdSyCuowur5rJbYL_QysrY-KMWw2DN91ZoAr3wQFMFk5ZJYcfCV7jBlqlzt5p89quoiL1dj/s287/Marianne.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="172" data-original-width="287" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHEG5NY59PpjLIdN-ZtlSIue6rPz7OYz_HX2OVDkIQ1zf1uH375ExRkyjdJ8YFw7X8VatXskKk1RH8O6Plun0J05nDMzczkNyhqX9uGVHjUK00nQMIVlEFjdSyCuowur5rJbYL_QysrY-KMWw2DN91ZoAr3wQFMFk5ZJYcfCV7jBlqlzt5p89quoiL1dj/w158-h94/Marianne.jpg" width="158" /></a></p><p>It is curious that the secular and proletarian, <br />tomboy-virginal, revolutionary symbol <br />of the French Republic since 1976,<i> <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne" target="_blank">Marianne</a></i><br />(who appears in silhouette on stamps and on<br />official stationery and documents) is named<br />after the Virgin Mary and her mother,<br />and not the burned-by-the-English Jeanne.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXNKVplGQEXk-r5GtiA60nDM0uGhmfnDYzRF3es8iXWp2Dl2aEAuDzPl5d1nDfAkKqC6rB5OAmDmBVocDR9Ndgbv9gVIXWJVzRq1m5BrW_Sa6jJ2hUckDnr55lAk-vsnEG_ZvvE_bhwAzCMhi1OgBeuMrxJkUWKAve-fpRscbBtiUvYp1J3HpndsOafLIn/s620/gilets-jaunes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="620" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXNKVplGQEXk-r5GtiA60nDM0uGhmfnDYzRF3es8iXWp2Dl2aEAuDzPl5d1nDfAkKqC6rB5OAmDmBVocDR9Ndgbv9gVIXWJVzRq1m5BrW_Sa6jJ2hUckDnr55lAk-vsnEG_ZvvE_bhwAzCMhi1OgBeuMrxJkUWKAve-fpRscbBtiUvYp1J3HpndsOafLIn/w487-h292/gilets-jaunes.jpg" width="487" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Delacroix's painting of Marianne adapted as a mural <br />in support of the right-wing Gilets-Jaunes.</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><br /></p></div>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-69450029447385688542024-03-13T05:18:00.000-07:002024-03-13T05:18:16.736-07:00Mystery solved.<p>In my cellar I pulled out plant-protecting wrap<br />to use as a sieve for my water-and-lime kefir,<br />and found many of these.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrRNWHWhkI7ym55VLiUpozbquTJWWHngi5YTmWQXAT88Hp5yd9x4rXE1_kVuzjElaOwN5YnppQhaJ82IIVMr2Jdybi23_C0UzKBjZYI2ouQ5cK5auHwP-ySn8I2X3oVfXSTAcelBrHmsfNz_fk73sRgees31pgbht-3v0oNDvuwBiAosvORx_H_07Ggof-/s2220/Mystery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2037" data-original-width="2220" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrRNWHWhkI7ym55VLiUpozbquTJWWHngi5YTmWQXAT88Hp5yd9x4rXE1_kVuzjElaOwN5YnppQhaJ82IIVMr2Jdybi23_C0UzKBjZYI2ouQ5cK5auHwP-ySn8I2X3oVfXSTAcelBrHmsfNz_fk73sRgees31pgbht-3v0oNDvuwBiAosvORx_H_07Ggof-/w457-h420/Mystery.jpg" width="457" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What were they ? The spent chrysalises of some 'pest' ?<br /><i>Google lens</i> could not help.<br />Then I realised: <br />I had used this wrap last year to protect<br />an oleander from frost. <br />These are oleander seeds!</p><p><br /></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-9203982266959996832024-03-12T16:00:00.000-07:002024-03-12T16:00:00.138-07:00Remembering Stevie Smith.<p>When I was on the point of drowning<br />in a tide-rip, alone, in the Atlantic, in November,<br />with nothing around me but a grey-green ocean<br />and an empty strand, <br />I actually did, momentarily, remember<br />the splendid Stevie Smith.</p><p>And then I touched a sandbar with a foot,<br />turned round and crawled back hand over hand<br />against the current and the tide,<br />coming up for air as my lungs required. <br />For half an hour I lay panting <br />in perfect solitude upon the sand.</p><p>I would have drowned, not waving...<br />what would have been the point ?<br />And, anyway, what human life is worth saving ?</p><p><br /></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-21492886186242954902024-03-12T04:29:00.000-07:002024-03-12T04:29:40.246-07:00Hello, Sailor !<p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf1MbqBK-OSkUMJXqrT9kH27NEMdMa3QYFvFCchR8PsRSDydaYqwUIHRzMxqugVnlAkxsoUvr-b2J-TkXcDYoa4Hj3wjkkDWpfMBk46xKb-w7BGGefZDCI57PAFixcu9ONrD71XVydPuZ129cRsx65oMe_F56dCdXim66pk8TKC3Cm_G7Pb20MUy5m-bEN/s2600/Hello,%20Sailor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1560" data-original-width="2600" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf1MbqBK-OSkUMJXqrT9kH27NEMdMa3QYFvFCchR8PsRSDydaYqwUIHRzMxqugVnlAkxsoUvr-b2J-TkXcDYoa4Hj3wjkkDWpfMBk46xKb-w7BGGefZDCI57PAFixcu9ONrD71XVydPuZ129cRsx65oMe_F56dCdXim66pk8TKC3Cm_G7Pb20MUy5m-bEN/w507-h304/Hello,%20Sailor.jpg" width="507" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>My deep-down soul-mate likes to be stroked.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-13193986585829263532024-03-11T16:00:00.000-07:002024-03-11T16:00:00.343-07:00The Acme<p>of ugly, dirty-pink vulgarity...<br />of Pizza-Hut EurAmericality. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjT1jyQoM9tP62OOzBsKPlyX6MeE37m1Ah3g3q0VhSXbMq1NE4LnBuHpAPG5ttqjZMXw7LASbXYjYtiQQc5sIhMqwB8UV3QGIF65FGqOS3uJuxnFgm4EU_hvYDMhV8K2Vc4clQgjCwmRO8cKiaMb6gqRMIZ7N3aj-erWUCLQwXH5Rfdx5Tno6NqqWKjQmh/s384/TSwift.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="300" height="415" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjT1jyQoM9tP62OOzBsKPlyX6MeE37m1Ah3g3q0VhSXbMq1NE4LnBuHpAPG5ttqjZMXw7LASbXYjYtiQQc5sIhMqwB8UV3QGIF65FGqOS3uJuxnFgm4EU_hvYDMhV8K2Vc4clQgjCwmRO8cKiaMb6gqRMIZ7N3aj-erWUCLQwXH5Rfdx5Tno6NqqWKjQmh/w324-h415/TSwift.jpg" width="324" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-63548651261219462472024-03-11T08:58:00.000-07:002024-03-11T08:58:22.944-07:00The Helpless in Gaza.<p>Since the Prophet (Blessed be His name)<br />was not as wise as His all-knowing God,<br />He was not wise or prophetic enough <br />to consider the possibility of carpet-bombing,<br />machine-gunning, missile-firing<br />and genocides 1400 years after<br />His nocturnal Ascension in Jerusalem.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwzIGSre1QYLmnPCT0K1KIHjOo9XoZ597lTsGrcZqRVOUE2DvTXl4V9bHO9LwT_Gy1Zxixt3mFHlqWZfRjjoc1PAYUXfiBpONoCwnEq_1VXhdTTNfKJvZmKqL9waRbQJbmmbAy_2XpWEWsoNdfFFQaDxYPJoUUdq-hC7Uf1NIGtU7clBWjzbvuhgjW1_60/s1231/Ascension.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1231" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwzIGSre1QYLmnPCT0K1KIHjOo9XoZ597lTsGrcZqRVOUE2DvTXl4V9bHO9LwT_Gy1Zxixt3mFHlqWZfRjjoc1PAYUXfiBpONoCwnEq_1VXhdTTNfKJvZmKqL9waRbQJbmmbAy_2XpWEWsoNdfFFQaDxYPJoUUdq-hC7Uf1NIGtU7clBWjzbvuhgjW1_60/s320/Ascension.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>The very idea of Ramadan in Gaza<br />is a sick joke in quite a different way<br />from our polyester Lent.</p><p>The least and perhaps best that the<br />helpless Faithless this side of the Dniester<br />can do in sympathy with Palestinians<br />is to observe Ramadan this year</p><p>especially during Easter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-8782984619197369232024-03-10T16:00:00.000-07:002024-03-10T16:00:00.141-07:00The Perversion of History.<p><br /></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvWFDw_IkxGoL6YHMYPGmppU4PG5RFfCB5XRygb69Qw26ta-seNtRqCLkfE3BJCSxR_-mTs1MAekw6sCdA-rv_jp4Qq1nePguaI-v8AxEl1noD8a8fuA0utImOdB2qvc-FEd52lXUPQPD8vt9ogxas1hS0sWjrZyrMQGWadSclN7uND54tjDgKe4sNlk1B/s620/gilets-jaunes.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="620" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvWFDw_IkxGoL6YHMYPGmppU4PG5RFfCB5XRygb69Qw26ta-seNtRqCLkfE3BJCSxR_-mTs1MAekw6sCdA-rv_jp4Qq1nePguaI-v8AxEl1noD8a8fuA0utImOdB2qvc-FEd52lXUPQPD8vt9ogxas1hS0sWjrZyrMQGWadSclN7uND54tjDgKe4sNlk1B/w513-h308/gilets-jaunes.jpg" width="513" /></span></i></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">A Paris mural (after Delacroix) in support of the Gilets-Jaunes,<br />many of whom were right-wing and racist.</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The French Revolution did not bring<br />liberty, equality or fraternity to France.</p><p>The police are still part of the army<br />and unaccountable.</p><p>Indeed, liberty has been granted only<br />since the EU was formed,<br />while equality and fraternity will probably never arrive.</p><p><i>"Contre nous de la tyrannie" </i>runs the third line of the <i>Marseillaise. </i>But it doesn't take a Proudhon to observe that all governments are tyrants, not just militarist ones...</p><p><br /><i>see</i> <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2155-the-persistence-of-the-old-regime">the-persistence-of-the-old-regime</a><i> and tolerate the mis-spelling of</i> 'racked' <i>in the blurb;</i></p><p><i>also my blog of 14th March.<br /></i></p><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOYcmIGdhyz2wG69jQTCl3aVA0jyx0KBqDp7VWKRKl88_eW_ZZbeRzrgYkpee3pgyNR3gaIujlNf_8ICaxXe-j4v917feoQZFvN0H6CIlVzS_RXyU1jGefnDFgpQ3iq1cH_iUCYTLdhcGtLr4nmot7z8ipDQIjTLMYmWVFkJTZmXSQuNibqE_DgpKZA2KP/s287/Marianne.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="172" data-original-width="287" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOYcmIGdhyz2wG69jQTCl3aVA0jyx0KBqDp7VWKRKl88_eW_ZZbeRzrgYkpee3pgyNR3gaIujlNf_8ICaxXe-j4v917feoQZFvN0H6CIlVzS_RXyU1jGefnDFgpQ3iq1cH_iUCYTLdhcGtLr4nmot7z8ipDQIjTLMYmWVFkJTZmXSQuNibqE_DgpKZA2KP/w211-h127/Marianne.jpg" width="211" /></a></i></div><p></p><p><br /><i><br /></i></p><p><br /></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-85089405609162968472024-03-10T07:07:00.000-07:002024-03-10T07:07:00.120-07:00Empty Shelves<p>No food, no spinsters –<br />just regret and Goya's monsters.</p><p><br /></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-27998749834918667452024-03-09T15:00:00.000-08:002024-03-09T15:00:00.265-08:00Obscenity aplenty.<p>Fascism, including Nazism, was an obscene expression<br />of conservatism.<br />Bolshevism, including Stalinism, was an obscene expression<br />of collectivism.<br />Consumerism is the obscene expression of capitalism.</p><p><br /></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-53861027567243078002024-03-09T00:27:00.000-08:002024-03-09T02:57:49.133-08:00Ignore the small holocaust<p><span style="font-size: medium;">in Gaza.<br />Instead, be wowed<br />by UCL Professor John Oppenheim's tweet:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.25px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">“Folks, something seems to be happening. <br />We show that our theory of gravity … <br />can explain the expansion of the universe <br />and galactic rotation without dark matter or dark energy.”<br /></span><br /><i><b>We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money<br />out of science and put it into astrology & the reading of palms...<br />Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.</b></i></p><p>- from Kurt Vonnegut's address at Bennington College, 1970. </p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-20158653772835552222024-03-08T15:00:00.000-08:002024-03-08T15:00:00.230-08:00What religion<p>has a sense of humour ?<br /><i>Dear Pious Person, True Believer,<br />the Person you are calling<br />is not available.</i></p><p><br /></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-37012859011636002662024-03-08T08:44:00.000-08:002024-03-08T09:06:26.811-08:00Abortion - OUI. Sex-work - NON.<p>France has added to its Constitution<br />the unassailable right of women to choose abortion. </p><p>In 1945, France (under the odious Charles de Gaulle) <br />finally gave women the right to vote,<br />and abolished the right of female sex workers <br />to choose their profession<br />under guaranteed medical supervision.</p><p><br /></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-11600704584919641962024-03-08T00:31:00.000-08:002024-03-08T00:42:38.646-08:00Same old, same old.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNlfqTAQ6CNF_zyVIDrhAGbJgHMiRdk86ef91QyJ9rYCP7YXRuD9US-AgyFhZzUCFy486WDIe765TPJirX6hhuD6xd7DxVlCWXcGNapQc3eyamZp5S01R0KWpQRC-VrZ8SPh_cU7H_VMh6f8rj9Ypy7wvPp0N5KR29bIAg7A2Eg_qISExIHvzhZDbD_tnu/s709/Guardian.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="709" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNlfqTAQ6CNF_zyVIDrhAGbJgHMiRdk86ef91QyJ9rYCP7YXRuD9US-AgyFhZzUCFy486WDIe765TPJirX6hhuD6xd7DxVlCWXcGNapQc3eyamZp5S01R0KWpQRC-VrZ8SPh_cU7H_VMh6f8rj9Ypy7wvPp0N5KR29bIAg7A2Eg_qISExIHvzhZDbD_tnu/w568-h307/Guardian.jpg" width="568" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKDA5O60hV1KsyYYNCYtfi-pVON3oqIVIHCYKzDHyIs60f5ecJFMjEz9cy3zHb_HqEgFekSlspgr0ugxRhqVshQUpfLMPuFR4RfK0HGq5ggi5CkFANsM11UiAWjN7uST9dFvbt1rr1gwCKDUXqE3kWchaZIHFXsfvspMeQyBbdVKjCu7Gr0yUlgFgxPEPu" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="245" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKDA5O60hV1KsyYYNCYtfi-pVON3oqIVIHCYKzDHyIs60f5ecJFMjEz9cy3zHb_HqEgFekSlspgr0ugxRhqVshQUpfLMPuFR4RfK0HGq5ggi5CkFANsM11UiAWjN7uST9dFvbt1rr1gwCKDUXqE3kWchaZIHFXsfvspMeQyBbdVKjCu7Gr0yUlgFgxPEPu=w244-h292" width="244" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-18328716732576847812024-03-07T15:00:00.000-08:002024-03-07T15:00:00.135-08:00The failure of democracy<p>will be due to many factors, including<br />the programmed infantilism of the electorate.</p><p>Moreover,<br />if there is a choice between the trivial and the cosmic,<br />people almost always choose the trivial.</p><p>There is also the disengagement of the informed...</p><p><br /></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-89098203487068786352024-03-07T11:34:00.000-08:002024-03-08T02:14:51.981-08:00'Merlin'<p>is a smartphone application<br />which records and identifies birds.<br />Here are some of our feathered friends<br />identified in the last three days<br />(here in SW France) :</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6v5p9ejKUfLL22TxMWH_RyOwkOFVZz5ji2e8PPxTft1IXVGoQyFtFmIZIJDFPWpM8yfI8CHFaeqi8U2P81nhS5YvvAqXElcAfnkmErMcUe9V0RKuZdXiGwH4PKH10Wibgq2NAEQAHliAIgFV5Shsm88BmzFPnI4OCuvnUnn5Cpif8x6IGNCtsNDv1TFkO/s2635/IMG_20240307_135858743.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2635" data-original-width="2235" height="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6v5p9ejKUfLL22TxMWH_RyOwkOFVZz5ji2e8PPxTft1IXVGoQyFtFmIZIJDFPWpM8yfI8CHFaeqi8U2P81nhS5YvvAqXElcAfnkmErMcUe9V0RKuZdXiGwH4PKH10Wibgq2NAEQAHliAIgFV5Shsm88BmzFPnI4OCuvnUnn5Cpif8x6IGNCtsNDv1TFkO/w445-h525/IMG_20240307_135858743.jpg" width="445" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>plus Spotted Woodpecker<br />and Owls...<br /><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdyo5F78c5yHDVNNX4ABC5WA328Z6UHbG-c2Qxg9Xf_V8zlrRMdLP4ImxVY5bJ2m4UaYz72YT-p36tU-RdexfCGumwi53ogZGwy9JYimTHJqK_WgGuKL3iwB7sc-zSL0V2TosTsQ21DzoYnab9fpEvJrObSO5cT57VojPyY7D9gL-ELOFNvnFSlHpKFVip/s507/Cirl%20Bunting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="495" height="457" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdyo5F78c5yHDVNNX4ABC5WA328Z6UHbG-c2Qxg9Xf_V8zlrRMdLP4ImxVY5bJ2m4UaYz72YT-p36tU-RdexfCGumwi53ogZGwy9JYimTHJqK_WgGuKL3iwB7sc-zSL0V2TosTsQ21DzoYnab9fpEvJrObSO5cT57VojPyY7D9gL-ELOFNvnFSlHpKFVip/w446-h457/Cirl%20Bunting.jpg" width="446" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cirl Bunting</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-60549833415798565442024-03-07T02:33:00.000-08:002024-03-07T02:33:54.996-08:00Homeless in Paris.<p>I think the government should issue<br />lockable polycarbonate domes<br />to protect these colourful semi-dwellings<br />for the 'Orrible Olympics 2024.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgsnMAsAFAY15isTzhBnbOZv0ckoQBYOXQjtg11gdXszllJ5koaq2pwV7PAnyKKu5FdjFOhurD9Vm1nH4GRJcblBHsWkmigQVPsoKfinPzMnH4HsaYYSw98ygVtLdEUVzCDyvtWsf5eQPMUHDT9fxqUD3_LmZsfjNBRFu-VgYYvVeUxQcsYP4gReCrSmaq/s1010/Homeless%20in%20Paris.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; 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