Christopher Hitchens, noted atheist, writes about his ongoing experience of throat cancer, the most recent effect of which has been loss of speech. Now dependant upon writing as his sole ‘voice’ Hitchens reflects on having to converse through prose and what the loss of a faculty so innate to his being means to him. The …
Reflective commentary on the death of Osama Bin Laden emerges as reports on the events of his demise continue to emerge. For what it’s worth, the US forces walked in his front door and shot him dead. Invading another country to do it. Just as an identifiable location of his grave has been identified as …
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Those who know me know to keep me away from numbers. Here’s a couple of posts that attempt to put the recent controversy over the USA’s federal budget into perspective, especially the triumphant posturing about the US$38 billion dollar deficit reduction. From Philip Greenspun: How can an individual voter make sense of quantities that are …
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