@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] If you’ve ever listened to and/or read the work of Canadian cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular-science author, Steven Pinker, you’ll know that he’s been at pains to tell us, replete...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘The pen is mightier than the sword.’ It could be said that when this was first coined — by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 — those who preferred the pen over the sword still had to...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] I’ve stated previously how I’m not at all averse to routine, as long as I feel it’s not too detrimental to my health and well-being. Downwardly mobile On the other hand, I’ve also let it...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.’ That famous observation, attributed, rightly or wrongly, to Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov — better known as Lenin to...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] The chaotic times Colombia is experiencing bring to mind just how inflexible a presidential system can be. Back me or sack me Faced with such a crisis in a parliamentary democracy, a motion of no confidence would most likely be tabled against the prime […]
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?’ ‘Whaddaya got?’ Some of you will recognise those lines from a classic scene in the 1953 US crime film The Wild One, with Marlon Brando playing protagonist Johnny Strabler. It was parodied, for those of us of […]
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] In a recent episode of the UK-based Spectator TV, Adam Ritchie, Senior Project Manager in vaccine development at Oxford University’s Jenner Institute, was asked how ethical it was for the UK and other...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] OK, I must make an important declaration first. I’m not a pet lover. This isn’t to say I’m anti-pets. I’ve no problem with them as long as I’ve little-to-no involvement when it comes to their care and attention. It’s the same way I feel […]
@wwaycorrigan The following is perhaps a sign that coronavirus has finally got the better of me, mentally that is (although some will say I’ve been having issues in my head that predate this pandemic). Covid-19 gets you one way or another, I guess. Whatever the case,...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘A hen can sit still and earn a living, a man can’t.’ Thus ran one of the «jokey» signs that hung in our family kitchen back in the day. It fitted, indeed fits, well with the traditional model where the man goes out to […]
