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There may be readers who fail to understand how I can be irritated by the present-day practice of religion ( disgusted at times, as in my p...

This Islamic video sent shivers down my spine: The poor little girl is expected to perform like a circus animal. It's an immensely...

A 30-year-old Japanese sprinter, Kenichi Ito , has just established a new world record of 17.47 seconds for the 100 meters. Click here to a...

Aussie oldtimers like me persist in believing that the expression "in like Flynn" evokes the great Tasmanian movie seducer Errol ...

I came across an article in the French press about an ingenious device that apparently prevents night-time drivers from falling asleep at th...

I nearly said she was pissed off... but "peeved" sounds better for the wife of an ambassador. Everybody has known, for ages, that ...

In my blog post of 23 September 2012 entitled Preparing winter wood [ display ], I said that I intended to stack up the newly-arrived pile ...

Here we have Mitt Romney talking through his Mormon hat, saying crazy things in which he apparently believes: To believe such rubbish,...

Up until now, I've never had any kind of automobile shelter at Gamone. So, in winter, the car is often covered in ice and snow. At other...

I call it the Darkstrong epoch. Others will evoke lies, cheating and bullying. Funnily enough, we cycling enthusiasts and observers i...

I've often thought that some of our greatest friends in Waterview (South Grafton, Australia), in the late 1940s, were the Howley family....

Apparently Mitt Romney believes the kind of frightening nonsense expressed in the following cartoon: It's scary to think that suc...

In the middle of a hot summer, life's not easy for pumpkins, which crave for water. But they survive, and perk up—as sprightly as ...