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I used sarcastic words concerning the Queensland politician and would-be photographer who has detected the wrath of God behind the planet...

In the Aussie political arena, there's a recently-elected Queenslander who's bonkers: Big Bad Jimmy Bidgood . He's got kangaroo...

My blog-writing slowed down somewhat over the last week because I decided to spend a little time producing a readable presentation of the ge...

This is the road a few kilometers up above Gamone. The cliff in the background has a name like a movie star: Tina Dalle . In fact, dalle is...

Whenever I see an exceptionally spectacular human creation—such as a fortress perched above sheer cliffs, for example, at the tip of a mount...

In the UK, a disgruntled ex-member of the extreme right-wing BNP [ British National Party ] decided to publish the total list of members on...

I went to live and work in the UK in December 1962... at a time when an obscure musical group called the Beatles was starting to become pop...

In the course of countless encounters with Google's dull Gmail window, I've never fallen asleep through boredom, or suffered otherw...

I've often wondered what it is about Jacques Brel 's "flat land", Belgium, that has given rise to so many talented graphic...

For a long time, particularly since my discovery of the extraordinary books of Richard Dawkins , I've thought it would be a good idea fo...

I'm still wasting time—along with over a hundred thousand other individuals—in a fascinating Internet game: a virtual version of the Ven...

Although Obama was elected a fortnight ago, Osama still hasn't said a word about it. This situation is unexpected, frustrating, distur...

I think it was the English girl Samantha Davies , skipper of Roxy in the Vendée Globe race around the planet (at present in the 13th posit...

My dog loves walnuts, which are abundant at Gamone. Periodically, when she's feeling a bit hungry (which is most of the time), Sophia r...

An article in this morning's Australian press made the unexpected suggestion that my native country should get involved in some kind of ...

Google has constant access to a vast corpus of data concerning the informational demands of the citizens of the planet, and the organizatio...

There are two ways of looking at commemorations of warfare and related events. • First approach. You sanctify proudly all those on your own ...

In the Holy City of Jerusalem , there have often been nasty conflicts between various lovable and charitable Christian neighbors who happen ...

The Everest metaphor is nice, but the truth of the matter is that the number of navigators who have sailed single-handed around the globe wo...

In the right-hand side column of this blog, just below my profile block, I've inserted a new gadget labeled LATEST COMMENTS . This helps...