The wisdom of Marx, Groucho not Karl
THE QUOTE from Groucho Marx , “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them...well, I have others” could be updated to a...
Who’s the boss?
THE UNITED States’ Supreme Court has voted to allow President Donald Trump to fire Consumer Product Safety Regulators although it will only be the...
Just one sugar please
WHEN I request a single sugar in my morning coffee, the actual quantity I get is random and there is nothing I can do...
The right to protest?
IS THERE a right to protest?
In some countries it is just too risky even if it is not illegal.
The Tiananmen Square protests...
What’s news?
WHEN CHECKING through quite a number of newspapers, local and online, there seems to be a limited range of events.
In the United Kingdom...
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
RUSSIA is thought of as an international bully ruled by a despot and now it is working to confirm that. The attacks on Ukraine...
Ring in the good but expensive news
A YOUNG couple in a Melbourne capital city could spend $AU 1 million ($US 0.65 or £0.48 million) to get a small house or...
Nobel, not noble
THE SUGGESTION that United States President Donald Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize, much less several as he believes, is unsound and offensive.
A...
Gold makes the ugly beautiful
IS THERE truth in the playwright Molière's words, “Gold makes the ugly beautiful”?
The Trump family is going to license a company to produce “Trump...
It’s not the done thing
AMERICA used to be an honorable country, but no longer. They were the country of the TV Westerns where the good guys never shot...