Well Darlings, If you’re reading this I guess your anti-virus software is up to date and you’ve not been hit by the latest virus that’s been doing the rounds on the Internet. Called a variety of names: Win32/Mywife.E@mm, Nyxem, Blackdoom, Blackworm, W32.Blackmal.E@mm, Tearec and “Kama Sutra, it was programmed to mosey around your hard drive […]
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Well darlings, The new Flamingo has opened here in Blackpool – and what can I say? For someone who makes money from using words, they almost fail me. As a privileged and grateful VIP guest on the opening night I can tell you that it’s like stepping into another world – you can hardly believe […]
Well darlings, Bah! Humbug! It’s that time of year again – it’s Christmas! This is the time when it seems everybody must spread their cheer. As we fight our way through the throngs of shoppers pushing, shoving, standing on each other’s toes and fighting tooth and nail for the very last item on the shelf […]
George Bush is ready to spend $7.5 billion dollars to protect the US from a disease that currently poses no danger and has so far killed no Americans, and only 62 people worldwide. Meanwhile, Bill Gates, much maligned by the media and internet geeks, is spending over $258 million in research toward Malaria, a disease […]
Thoughts on a Revolutionary Social Theory Part 1: Socialism is the Great Reform “…one cannot by fair dealing, and without injury to others, satisfy the nobles, but you can satisfy the people, for their object is more righteous than that of the nobles, the latter wishing to oppress, whilst the former only desire not to […]
Where are the last vestiges of Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders hiding? Are they cowering in caves near the Pakistani border? Perhaps they own a condo complex in Karachi. More likely they are on a Dude Ranch in America’s Heartland. Remember 1994? Religious fundamentalists overtook Afghanistan and trounced on that nation’s women with a vengeance. Being draped […]