Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.
Once upon a time there was a leaf on a tree. One fine day, the leaf became conscious and started to ask questions about itself and the meaning…
ALEXANDER THE GREAT: WHO’S YOUR DADDY? Everyone has to have someone to look up to for inspiration. Julius Caesar had Alexander The Great. Alexander had probably mythical (but…
JULIUS CAESAR: DON’T CROSS THE STREAM! Big Julie gets a bad rap. He’s often associated with the fall of the Roman Republic and, while he certainly played a…
Welcome to my new book – “Condemned To Repeat It”. I’ll be posting chapters here as I write them. INTRODUCTION If there’s one comment I’ve enjoyed getting over…
A Three illusions poem by me. THE SONG OF SIMPLY EVERYTHING. The savage sun, the busy ant.Stupendous oak, a young green plant.Gargantuan El CapitanA ghost of smoke, a…
The real problem is the system that let someone like him become President in the first place.
We tend to shun the concept of the willing killer because it offends our kinder sensibilities, but a controlled psychopath is an asset on the killing fields. Those…
“Members of elite or special forces are high functioning psychopaths,” writes CJ Werleman. He points out that they are sometimes referred to as “compassionate psychopaths” – which seems…
Psychopaths are everywhere in the news today but nobody (except me) is calling them that. Which is part of the problem. We don’t recognise psychopathy when we see…
It’s a weird experience to watch your kids break out on their own. Often these days I look at my older boys and think “where the hell did…