@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Yes, it’s that moment you’ve all been waiting for, the Wrong Way Corrigan Loser and Winner of the Year Awards 2020. We’ve had plenty of contenders for the former, the latter has been much more...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Each year throws up its surprises that catch us off guard, leave us badly exposed. From a global perspective, this year has, um, trumped them all since, arguably, the end of World War II. Covid contradictions...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] In January of this strangest of years, unaware of what was coming down the line, I made a couple of what could be seen as rash decisions. One was to resign from my full-time, relatively well-paid marketing job....
@wwaycorrigan (Click here for an audio version of this blog entry.) In my previous blog entry, I wrote about the possibility of the current cold war between China and the US heating up and how it could bring biological warfare to a new, devastating level. In light of the deep...
*Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog entry. @wwaycorrigan ‘Your grandparents and great-grandparents had to live through devastating wars, with a bloody end a very real possibility. Today, all you have to do to play your part is stay at home.’ This...
@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...
@wwaycorrigan While born and raised on a farm in the west of Ireland, it would be quite a stretch to say that my upbringing was one where I lived completely off the land in some sort of idyllic, symbiotic relationship with nature. No. For one, we rarely directly consumed any of...
@wwaycorrigan Those idealistic at heart may have thought that in a world connected as never before, the arrival of a common enemy of humankind would unite us as never before. You know, like in the Independence Day movie when the aliens attack, we rally together, led, of course,...
@wwaycorrigan There has been much comment in recent weeks about a coming great change in how we humans conduct our affairs once we get through this coronavirus chaos. It’s a belief that a return to the status quo before the virus crisis is practically impossible. Our...
@wwaycorrigan A sure-fire way to ensure you get the blood up of a large section of readers is to start off a blog post quoting Donald J. Trump. So here goes. The US president tweeted the other day about coronavirus and the measures being taken to control it that ‘We cannot...
