Podcast: Less Than Five Minutes of Sarcasm
What the response to that infamous Sydney Sweeney commercial really means….
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Information on Greece 2025
It appears that we now have 15-20 more or less confirmed participants in the November trip to Greece. We have therefore contacted our Athenian travel agents, who own a hotel in Athens and provide buses and guides.
The Master Builder
The London theatre-goer has to get used to seeing what he reveres systematically demeaned. Such a thought occurred to me as I watched ‘My Master Builder’, a play very loosely based on Ibsen’s striking late work The Master Builder.
The London theatre-goer has to get used to seeing what he reveres systematically demeaned. Such a thought occurred to me as I watched ‘My Master Builder’, a play very loosely based on Ibsen’s striking late work The Master Builder.
Cruz, Conscience and Israel by Anthony McCarthy
Ted Cruz, US senator for the State of Texas, recently took time out to remind us of his literalist illiteracy with regard to the Bible, Christianity, theology and morality.
Ted Cruz, US senator for the State of Texas, recently took time out to remind us of his literalist illiteracy with regard to the Bible, Christianity, theology and morality.
Media Maniacs
I have often imagined award ceremonies to pay tribute to what is most typically American. My first thought was a PT Barnum Award for the American who most contributed to the degradation of the American character.
The Mentality of Walter Scott
For the average Scottish or English reader, Waverley must have been an exhilarating backwards trip through time and history, which enabled him to see both the feudal and tribal loyalties of Scots who adhered to the Stuart cause in much the same way their ancestors had flocked to the standards of Wallace and the Bruces.
Trump and Netanyahu Against the Iranians
To me it seemed painfully obvious that Trump and Netanyahu had worked out a plan
Greece in November
We are tentatively planning a small group trip to Greece of about 10 days for November 2025. The rough plan is to arrive and spend perhaps three nights in Athens and see the usual sights, then a bus will take us to Nauplion/Nafplio on the East coast of the Peloponnesus and from there visit Mycenae and Epidauros, and perhaps Tiryns and/or Nemea
Old Wine in New Bottles, Preface Part I
After this tedious exposition, we shall get down to such questions as whether or not people who use cell phones in restaurants should suffer summary and immediate executions,
