LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC

I doubt we'll watch the TV "debate" tonight. My view is that the election's "all over bar the shouting" (in fav...

Part 1 and some interesting comments are HERE . This post is my attempt to understand a little more about a possible 600-year arc of capit...

As some posts in my archives attest, I'm a sucker for musical talent shows. Always have been, always will be. From Carroll Levis Disc...

A long article by one Rebecca Solnit appeared at Common Dreams on Thursday, as well as at Huffington Post, and possibly elsewhere this week:...

Why is the subject of drone use in countries with whom the USA or UK are not at war not prominent in political discussion? A few blogs an...

In reading a very interesting piece by Morris Berman at Counterpunch: The Waning of the Modern Ages , I noticed mention of the "arc...

Music and songs have the almost unworldly power to arouse old memories.   Sometimes it happens the other way around - the "man bites d...

During my first couple of years in the USA one of my favourite places to look around, when out shopping, was the Hobby Lobby store in a ...

On Thursday Blogger forced its entire blogging community onto their new, supposedly improved, interface. For the past few months we've ...

In a ring-binder in one of the antique stores we visited during our recent trip, among items stored in plastic sleeves, I found that shown ...

Randy Newman's new song, I'm Dreaming features the line: "I'm dreaming of a white president", is full of satirical, s...

Our internet connection went south for a while earlier, it led to my delving into a couple of astrology books to see what the authors had to...

BAD NEWS : Oklahoma will be the only state of the 50 United States of America where just two names will appear on the ballot in the presiden...

Got back from our trip on Thursday evening, feeling somewhat "knackered" as they say in Yorkshire. A few nights in an assortment...