CLIVE JAMES Clive James, man of many talents, roles and names to fame, admits that on some occasions when he spoke he did not know what he was...
Thanks, culldav. One could extend your comment about "how many gins" to write a commentary on the important role that alcohol plays in the entire...
It's been more than 3 months since anyone posted on this thread. With the passing of Malcolm Fraser two days ago I'll shift the direction of this...
David(D): The link you provided does confirm my previous suspicions and belief that Christianity was a major contributing factor in the Fall of...
Part 1: I'll open and close with a little summary on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, a complex subject if ever there was one. To save...
There is a program on ABC Radio National in Australia entitled "Ockhams Razor". I've been listening to it for years. It is a soap box for all...
There is no rush, David; I find that the more I know, the more complex it gets. Keeping it simple, I find, is really quite impossible. There are,...
As in many areas of life, David, I think I have made things more difficult for myself than I needed to, but "such is life" ---at least in my...
Part 1: I've often thought, David, that necessity is the mother of invention. In an address to the Mathematical Association of England on the...
An enjoyable read, David, but I have run out of steam for today and, once I've taken my evening meds I'm not much good for anything but a slow...
Section 1: I share your concern, culldav, about the partisan political world that comes at us all day after day and night after night; indeed,...
Part 1: The above posts from culldav, giving him nearly 3000 posts here at this site, enough to make a collector's edition of several volumes,...
Thanks, Gwendoline! Maintaining one's enthusiasm is crucial in so many ways. After more than 50 years(1960 to 2014) of reading and studying,...
I think culldav is perfectly correct insofar as some utopian democracy is concerned. My own view is not significantly unlike that of Clive James...
Separate names with a comma.