Greater love hath no man...
The title of this post refers to a very well known line from John's Gospel: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." The surrounding lines provide a bit of c…
Tagged: philosophy
Unhappy the land that needs heroes....??
The line : "Unhappy is the land that needs a hero." comes from Bertholt Brecht's 'Life of Gallileo' and has stuck with me for many, many years. I can't remember when I first heard it, but it still ra…
Dandelion Breaks and how to avoid them
I have always been a great fan of Berke Breathed's cartoon strip 'Bloom County'. For those of you whose life is as yet incomplete, lacking reporting from the strange world of Bloom County, I refer you…
To Peace....
...and before everyone leaps up, glasses and coffee mugs in hands, and shouts 'To Peace' back to me, I'm not offering a toast here! I'm thinking that it's about time we made 'peace' a verb. Henri Nouw…
Single Sex Marriage....
Well, you know what they say about fools rushing in where angels fear to tread....here I go. Normally I don't post too much on social issues, but this grew out of a Facebook post I made on a friend's…
Seven of Nine and the Illuminati
This blog post started life this summer, after the Olympics. It was a time of great celebration in Britain; after all, according to some people we'd dodged at least three bullets over the Olympic per…
Denver and the progressive knee jerk point-scoring...
I rarely write about serious stuff like mass murders here on this blog. It's not that I don't care, it's just that I regard it as pompous and pretentious for me to pontificate on the bleedin' obvious…
Johnny Cash and me.
An early memory of mine is listening to my Uncle Idris play Johnny Cash songs on his guitar. Particularly he did a great rendition of 'Ring of Fire', though without the Mexican trumpets, Mexican trum…
The Competent Person....
The 'Competent Man' (or woman) is a character in literature who has a vast range of skills and abilities that make them appear to be capable of doing anything. Classic male examples are Jeevesor Angu…
Wikileaks - 'Heat' magazine for the Political classes?
Hear me out on this one. I've been a political animal for over half my life; for me it came with the turf of being working class boy, avoids going down the pit by going to university, comes home and s…