What price common sense when it comes to buying things? Can anyone explain to my satisfaction the way monetary value is placed on something? Currently UK£ 50 will buy a hard cover book, a poorly painted picture, or a week’s groceries. It will barely fill the petrol tank on a middle range car, even get [...]
Out of discontent comes war. While we may be living in the early years of the twenty-first century, to an outsider visiting our planet, you could forgive them for thinking that nothing has really changed for humanity. Countless millions are out of work. Disease is rife, civil unrest is on the rise. Wars and hunger kills [...]
On last night’s 6pm BBC news here in the UK, one item caught my interest and made my blood boil. With all of the racial tension created by the riots here back in August, why actively promote racialism? Yet another completely pointless racist survey had found that there are currently two million people living here [...]
A growing number of companies these days totally embrace paperless transactions and billing. But there are still some who persist in sending out bills and the like to our households, despite championing this completely logical solution. Unlike physically delivered bills which can get lost due to human error, paperless cannot. If, like me you now [...]
Art Teacher, Barbara Garro, says, If you want your child to grow up well-socialized with great problem-solving and organization skills, begin exposing them to drawing as early as they can hold a drawing instrument.” Garro, who did her Master of Arts thesis on how children learn, says, “I had allergies and asthma as a toddler [...]
This morning I was just reading an article entitled New Generation of Airships about NASA’s plans to design a new generation of airships to transport cargo around the world. Why for heavens sake? Surely NASA should be concentrating on what, until recently, they do best – producing vehicles for space exploration. They complained when President [...]
Now, my California community college students are far from clueless, to use their word, in all matters of life, I assure you. And some are quite bright, and capable in many respects. It is their frame of reference that concerns me here. It is their limited experience and world view, and the manner in which [...]
As we all get older, we tend to compare what is going on around us right now with what things were like in the so-called good old days of our youth. The members of this current generation will look upon the present day as their own good old days in years to come. But were [...]
On this morning’s news here in England it was announced that the major electricity suppliers in this country are about to raise the base unit price we all pay. It begs the question, why, if we are being told to continually scale down how much electricity we use in our homes, that they feel justified [...]
Is it any wonder the normally peaceful streets of our major cities are fast resembling war zones? When our government, hell bent on saving money at all costs to alleviate the national debt severely reduces the numbers of police and other front-line services, should it come as a complete surprise? Plus, is it also surprising [...]
