Commentary

A few fun food facts for you today – to both inform and revolt. Despite my tall and generally stick-like appearance, I can stack on the weight – in fact at this height (6’4″), my weight has varied by 56 pounds (25kg, or the weight of a good sized springer spaniel).  I maintain in fact…

Those that regularly visited this site may have been under the impression that I died or became severely incapacitated on or around 16th of October 2011, since all activity stopped  at that time.  Apologies for the sudden cessation and for the lack of any explanation. But here I am back again. The reason for the…

In which I track down the sad story behind one of the chickadee’s favourite songs, reignite a love for South West Louisiana and Austin Texas, and learn about the very bad behavior of a respected journalist. In one of the interesting asides that make the LC such entertaining company, she mentioned in KL last week…

In all the middle-class hand-wringing about the riots, the universal refrain is that the looters are not like us.  We look at them as though they are from a different planet.  I wonder how true that is. Thinking about this lately, it’s occurred to me that absolute honesty, or even morality, is not a given…

Hustling through. Waterloo station on Friday, I noticed numerous identical little ladies in pink t-shirts collecting for what seemed to be ‘Greek Animal Rescue’.  I am always happy to give to deserving causes, but in a hurry, I couldn’t figure out what this meant.  What could this charity be about? Was it for example, the rescue of British…

OK it’s schadenfreude, but it is enjoyable This was not intended to be a site that included topical commentary , but it would be remiss of me, if only for my own historical records, to fail to note how deeply satisfying it is to see the various parts of Murdoch’s empire start to catch fire….