Can words express the horror of mankind’s darkest hour? Of late, all I’ve been reading is books by Holocaust survivors. It’s enough to make anyone despair. I’m sure a more diligent search will turn up more poignant pictures, but here’s a subtle reminder of the dangers of right wing nationalism. Bodies stacked like cordwood at [...]

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From one of Alan Moore’s many works Why do men do the things they do? We are so weak and cowardly…Perhaps women are right to despise us. In love, we behave like children, lost in the dark. We close our eyes when we kiss, afraid lest we should glimpse the awful truth…That we are not [...]

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The West suspends aid to Hamas, which in all fairness, has won a democratic election. How faithful is Hamas’ rendition of the Palestinian peoples’ wishes? Fairly accurate, according to the BBC, which seems like a fairly trustworthy source. You might, of course, disagree, being one of those who contends that the BBC is simply a [...]

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At university, I have to enrol in math courses. They are finite in number and widely feared. Though by no means ‘advanced’ mathematics, some of them have a certain something that is apt to strike a quiver into the stoutest heart. Today I wrote the final for the last course of this type. Mathematics is [...]

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No peace of mind unless I’m worrying about something. Is that the paradox of all paradoxes to plague me? Slow down, you say? What’s the hurry, where are you rushing to? W.H. Davies couldn’t have put it better with his immortal What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand [...]

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