Let’s control the native population birth rate
A couple of doctors are urging other doctors in the UK to discuss family planning with their patients. Sounds reasonable. But when you get down into the arguments for this family planning, it becomes...
View ArticleAssisted suicide should not be an answer
Some days I am grateful for advances in technology that have improved our lives. Other days, I curse them. Not because they impose hindrances in my life particularly, but I see how it changes the...
View ArticleBeware the Killer Ants!
Batten down the hatches, they’re on their way! Of course they are. Just as a few years earlier the killer bees, killer rats and swarms of killer locusts were scheduled to reach our shores. All we...
View ArticleThe New Melting Pot
I am increasingly frustrated by people of various backgrounds who demand changes by well-established organizations to meet their own ethnic and religious requirements. Not that I don’t believe in...
View ArticleDaylight Saving Time – what a bunch of baloney
Daylight Saving Time or British Summer Time. The US has just gone through it. We will be going through it soon. After all these years, I still don’t get it. Why do we have to do this? Proponents of...
View ArticleObesity is now a ‘green’ crisis
What went wrong? How did we go from a society where 3% of the population were obese to one that is 40% obese? All this in approximately 30-35 years. Can it all be attributed to a decrease inÂ...
View ArticlePIN chip technology not foolproof
I don’t understand this obsession with PIN-chip credit and debit cards. When we first opened a current account with our bank, we were given a cash account – that meant you could only access money at...
View ArticleMourning the loss of a title
We had a name, a title that required perseverance to achieve. We contributed a substantial amount of hard-earned tax money to achieve this name. After all, it isn’t everyday that your street would be...
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