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Millions…billions…oh well, never mind the trillions, already I only have a vague idea of the amount a billion of something represents. However, politicians seem to have a very fast learning …
Caen is an inland harbour on the Normandie coast of France. The river Orne has been used to make a canal for sea-going ships and I went there once in …
Food prices are going up! Newspapers, duly influenced by their governments, blame the drought in one small part of the world, a few states in the US, as the cause …
A few days ago appeared in a local French newspaper the picture of a fellow who proudly proclaimed that he had been a member of the team that tried to …
As I can only watch the Olympics on the SABC you can understand that I haven’t seen much of the efforts of all these athletes. Many of them appear to …
Letter to: John Scott (Cape Times), Don Pinnock (ex editor Getaway), Donwald Pressly (Business Report). The reason why I’m writing to you gentlemen is because I asked all three …
Why is Africa Africa? Why are Africans more homogeneous as a continental population than any other population on earth? Is it because Mama Afrika is the mother of humanity? The …
In my last blog I entertained the idea that some intelligent principle is a natural ingredient mixed in the matter that makes up our cosmos. Today I can tell you …
After my last blog my brother Jack in Australia asked me whether I was getting religious whereupon I asked him whether he had ever spotted anything intelligent in any religion. …
What’s the plural of ‘mongoose’? Could it be two mongeese? I don’t know and …. right, right , my spelling thing on this machine has already told me, it’s mongooses. …
