@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] A Venezuelan friend once told me of a saying in her country: ‘The Colombian can never lose.’ This seems to have come, for the most part, from the days when Venezuela was the ostensibly richer, more...
@wwaycorrigan There is an expression we use in Ireland to describe those who put themselves before everybody else. We call them ‘mé féiners’, putting an English ending to two Irish-language words, ‘mé féin’, meaning ‘myself’. Basically, you could say these are a type of fundamentalist individualist. ‘The greater good for the greater number’ only comes […]
