@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘Before you criticise somebody, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you do criticise them, you’ll be a mile away and you’ll have their shoes.’ Faultfinders Yeah, it’s an old...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘Yes, we shall set them to work, but in their leisure hours we shall make their life like a child’s game, with children’s songs and innocent dance. Oh, we shall allow them even sin, they are...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] I do find it somewhat perplexing — and occasionally amusing — how self-proclaimed freedom-loving liberals demand that others follow their path. At times, this is seen in a passive-aggressive manner. However,...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Sitting unhidden in one of my barrio tiendas sipping on a litre of Poker beer, it dawned on me that less than a year ago such behaviour was officially prohibited and had been for the guts of 12 months. I’m...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Only the very naïve believe that we live in a free world. Where you have a conflict of human interests, the concept of true individual freedom is unattainable. Delicate balance My doing whatever I want has the...
@wwaycorrigan In a classic episode of The Simpsons — in its heyday — a temporarily housebound Bart suspects that do-gooder neighbour Ned Flanders is about to murder his wife. He frantically calls the police and gets through to a ridiculous pre-record of options. In haste, he...
@wwaycorrigan ‘For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ Most of us have heard that statement before, Isaac Newton’s third law of motion as it is. It has, of course, significance in our daily lives. That is to say, every decision we take has...
