Month: November 2009

I am all for artistic licence in a fairy tale sense, where imaginations can run free, but when it comes to what is really real life situations, I believe everything depicted must be part of the possible, the likely, or the everyday, not mayhem, razzmatazz or hyperbole for their own sake. I know that I… Continue reading Hosing people with bullets

Before launching into the main topic, I would like to give a hypothetical case to make valid points. Take a large cartel, with business in practically every level of life, whose managing director is dictatorial, secretive and treats the Board of Directors shamefully. He has a close friend on the board to whom he has… Continue reading Poor Gordon

My generation, which is well on the way to extinction, spent a large portion of its life in penury, which induced a high level of respect of the value of money. It was 1935 before we really began to come out of the recession caused by the First World War, and the change in our… Continue reading Minority Rule

A personal message I have not written anything for the blog since the 17th of October due to the fact that I had lost my connection to broadband. What I have been most interested in is the fact that so many people find what I have already written of interest. I rarely get comments, but… Continue reading A personal message