It is useless to object to man being made ridiculous. Man is born ridiculous, as can easily be seen if you look at him soon after he is born. It is grotesque to drink beer, but it is equally grotesque to drink soda-water; the grotesqueness lies in the act of filling yourself like a bottle […]
Master, where shall I work today? And my love flowed warm and free. Then He pointed me out a tiny spot, And said, “Tend that for me.” I answered quickly, “Oh, no, not that. Why, no one would ever see, No matter how well my work was done. Not that little place for me!” And […]
That is/was the motto of our Labour government. However, … To keep people virtually employed with borrowed money means lying to ourselves, we will have to pay it all back … plus the interest. Creating more and more tax-funded jobs is not creating jobs, it’s creating more dependency, which is a form of slavery.
There was that article in the newspaper last week. Because of the fixed interest rates on the council (our) debt and the current very interest rates the city lost $1.4b. The council explained very quickly we actually did not lose anything. Because we did not have that money. So the loss is a loss on […]
We are in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. The real estate prices went 20% up in one year. The cost of renting is growing in a similar manner. Yet our political heavyweights play games with words working hard not to address the real problem. They all talk about (non-)affordability, first-buyers, property ladder. They never […]
“What nonsense all this is; do you mean that a poet cannot be thankful for grass and wild flowers without connecting it with theology; let alone your theology?” To which I answer, “Yes; I mean he cannot do it without connecting it with theology, unless he can do it without connecting it with thought. If […]