They asked me to stay home for a couple of weeks, and I did what they asked. Then they asked me to stay home for another two weeks, and after that another, and then another, and now yet another. The fact that with each extension we get more and more irritated reveals something interesting about … Continue reading WE HUMANS ARE ODD

People complain about the cold. So what does God do? He warms it up a little. And then they get hysterical about global warming. Can you blame Him for getting a bit miffed? “Here, let me give you something to really complain about!” There hasn’t been a peep about global warming for months now. Is … Continue reading HEY, I’M JUST SPECULATIN’

My wife isn’t just a pretty face. Behind it she’s got a sit-up-and-take-notice brain, i.e. one not to be trifled with. So in response to my query at the end of my last post, she’s offered the following answer. Not unlike so many other things we do - America’s involvement in Vietnam or Iraq, marrying … Continue reading THE PREVIOUS INVESTMENT TRAP

All the epidemiologists and politicians are talking about flattening the curve, by which they don’t mean– at least not necessarily – reducing the total area under the curve, i.e. reducing the number of people who’ll eventually contract Covid 19. Even if the total area under the curve remains the same, extending the curve reduces the … Continue reading THE NO-END-IN-SIGHT CLAUSE

Here’s a well-known fact, or at least it would be well-known if it were given a moment’s thought. Most of the people who work for a living, at least in the so-called developed world, don’t actually produce anything. They don’t grow anything, they don’t mine anything, they don’t make anything, they don’t fix anything, they … Continue reading THE REAL COST OF COVID 19

There’s a remote possibility that … Hang on. To assert that something is highly unlikely – for example that civilization as we know it will come to an end as a result of this Covid 19 pandemic – presupposes a whole lot of knowledge I do not in fact possess. At best I’m flapping my … Continue reading A WALK IN THE SUN

I guess this is a case of in for a penny, in for a pound. How so? Because once one’s asked – as I have in an earlier post - how many lives have actually been saved once we include the autonomous effects of the Covid 19 pandemic, why stop there? Why not send a … Continue reading ONLY BAD PEOPLE ASK BAD QUESTIONS

A being that wants for nothing wants nothing. That’s why it makes no sense to talk about the self-sufficiency of God. If there was nothing He felt was wanting He wouldn’t have bothered creating anything. But apparently He did. In fact the kind of world He created – including the kind of creatures He created … Continue reading SOME UNSOLICITED THEOLOGY FROM A SELF-CONFESSED ATHEIST

One of the tropes going around is that the Covid 19 virus doesn’t care whether you’re Democrat or Republican, Christian or atheist, pro-Life or agin’ it, or whatever. But that’s not true. If you mock the draconian efforts being deployed to combat its contagion it will single you out. Were this not so – or … Continue reading EYAM AND THE BLACK DEATH

I’m not sure we needed Charles Darwin to alert us to this tautology: Things that persist over time do and things that don’t don’t. I’m not sure this explains anything, but yes, a Monarch butterfly keeps its markings over the course of its being a butterfly, the Earth revolves around the sun with remarkable regularity, … Continue reading CHARLES DARWIN AND DAVID LEWIS