Careless Comments .

'Only the good die young' (originally, 'Whom the gods love, dies young' by Herodotus. or later 'The good die young' by William Wordsworth) .....

Nicholas Parsons CBE Was A British Media Legend
- But No Comment Page Opened By BBC?

.... is one of those phrases that get trotted out regularly e.g. when young people die in a car accident, or increasingly when a celebrity dies (at any age).

Water Wars Of Tomorrow

It is often said the world's next world war will be fought over water .... 

Fighting Over Water Could Be Worlds Next Big Thing ......

.... indeed its been touched upon in this blog.

Inclusion Madness?

Barbie now has a Vitiligo doll cousin  ....

Barbie Vitiligo Doll

..... Mattel, the makers are trying to be more 'diverse' ....

A Nobel Endeavour

If I could nominate a couple of people for a Nobel prize on the basis of doing one good thing ...

Arvind Kejriwal ... Has Done Something Good

..... it would be Arvind Kejriwal and Uma Preman.

Right Guard?

Apparently, a study conducted in 2018 by researchers such as Dr Jonas Olofsson in Stockholm University .....

Adolf Hitler (Seated Far Right) Developed A Fear Of Germs Before WWI

.... has concluded that those people (men?) who hold 'strong right wing views' (define 'strong'), also seem to have a strong fear of infectious diseases and concerns about personal hygiene.

Song of the Nile

The more ridiculous the culture, the more preposterous the criminal charges.

Sherine Spoke Too Freely

Muslim regimes are especially prone to this, but are by no means the only such states.

Facebooks Imaginary Friends

I do use Facebook  .....

Facebook Not Always A Party For Users .....

.... but only to stay in touch with a small number of ex-colleagues and friends, mainly from my place of last employment.

Gone And Forgotten

According to one news channel in the USA, there are about 100,000 missing people in the United States, and nearly 1,000 of them are from the Delaware Valley area.

The FBI Missing Persons And Kidnapped Web Page Is Never Short Of Customers .....

There are also 40,000 cases of unidentified remains.

Flying Meccano Set

Believe it or not .....

Kalinin K-7 .... Meccano Special

.... this Meccano set aircraft actually did fly (in a modified design) ..... I know, I could hardly believe it myself.

Tom And Jihad

The Tom and Jerry cartoon show was blamed in 2016, by a top Egyptian official for rising violence in the Middle East, and Iran's Supreme Leader has compared their US relations to Tom and Jerry at least twice.

Tom And Jerry ... Eternal Foes

During a conference entitled "The Media and the Culture of Violence" at Cairo University, Ambassador Salah Abdel Sadek, the head of Egypt’s State Information Service, told the audience that the Tom and Jerry cartoon, which is very popular with children across the Middle East and elsewhere such as Pakistan, sets an idea in the viewer’s mind that violence is natural.

Knocking On Heavens Gate

Many, if not most Muslim men believe that after they die, they will enter Paradise and receive great rewards .....

The Dream of the Believer - Achille Zo (1826 -1901) ...

..... the rewards for the women are perhaps not so obvious or great.

Public Civility And Private Poison

The former Labour Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer ....

Belated Bout Of Truthfulness ....

... has suggested that the Labour party's left wing cannot be trusted and could be out to derail the campaign of Sir Keir Starmer.

The Original Big Idea

Jewish Medieval Scholar and Kabbalist Nachmanides

Rabbi Moses Nachmanides - Ahead Of His Time?

... who lived between 1194 AD and 1270 AD, made many commentaries on the Torah.

Loopy Laura

Laura Lowes is at just 30 years of age, a mother, and already a low(ish) level career criminal, of the type that we seem to produce more and more of these days ....

Laura Is No Criminal Mastermind ....

.... she has already been convicted of 73 criminal offences (including some for violence), and shows little sign of slowing down, or getting any brighter.

Goggle Eyes

As Christmas present time approached .... and then receded

Xmas Games Gifts for Many

... there's little doubt that for many teens (probably predominantly male), and young males under the age of 25, computer games will have featured very highly on their Christmas present wish lists.

Speaking With Forked Tongue

Donald Tusk, the former European Council president has indicated that Brussels feels "empathy" towards an independent Scotland joining the European Union.

Donald Tusk Says One Thing
But Sometimes Means Another

Cue, delighted shouts from the diminutive leader of the devolved Scottish government .... cry freedom, and raise the clans!!