Did you see the story of United Airlines and the dead dog? A stewardess on an internal American flight insisted that a dog that was on the flight, in the cabin, was placed in the overhead locker for the

Steemit had a four hour brain fart after I posted this, so I have reposted. Hope that's okay.

I love science. I am a rationalist. If science can’t get a handle on it, then the likelihood is I don’t want anything to do with it. But bad science? Bad science can be the most destructive, murderous

I know I am not alone in thinking about my own mortality. It sort of creeps up on you as the years tick by. A year like 2016, when so many celebrated, famous people shuffle off this mortal coil certainly

I decided last week to change how I operate on Steemit. As much as I want to make some money on here, my attempts to appeal to a large audience have, by and large, not been successful. It could be that

If you are unfamiliar with this concept, Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a relatively new economic idea that advocates paying every adult (perhaps everyone, from cradle to grave) within a country a basic

Like a lot of people, I have been trying to find my feet on Steemit. I see those succeeding, and I have tried, superficially, to emulate what they are doing. I am trying to find a “niche”, and this has

Look, we all know that looks aren’t supposed to be important. It’s inside what counts, right? Try telling that to the ugliest animal in the world (and no, I am not talking about Piers Morgan). Actually,

Consider the bullet ant. A fairly formidable insect, native to Central America, its bite is said to be as painful as a being shot by a bullet. That sounds like an exaggeration to me, but I wouldn’t like

I know that you think you aren’t. Me neither. I am no saint, but, as a rule, I don’t tend to kill people. Generally speaking, killing people is bad, and anyway, I am far too pretty to go to prison. I am

So, we had a little snow. I say a little, but for us it's a lot, and this is just the start of it. And being a country that doesn't tend to get snow, it has caused quite a ruckus nationwide, even leading

Reputation 46.8 SMD $42.961 Steem: 15.781 Voting Weight: 167 SP (with a little help from a friend) VESTS: 32219.624095 Followers: 114 Following: 383

I love to play with language. It's amazing, really. We make a load of sounds with our larynxes, and depending on what noises we make, we can engender wonder, amusement, tears, anger, annoyance, empathy,

Something staggering happened to film-making in the 1970s. It was a zeitgeist thing, to some degree. On the back of the swinging sixties, pervasive moral attitudes were changing, which unleashed a hurricane

I am not an expert, but I would think that blogging 101 would suggest that you really shouldn’t start off by insulting your would-be reader. It’s okay though, because you’re in denial, so you didn’t take

I was on the Steemit Bloggers Discord page and we were discussing emoticons. Well, I say “we”, but really it was me rambling on about them like the nutter on the bus that no-one wants to make eye-contact

Yes, I have gone full Tony Montana! It’s time bring out the big guns in my quest to conquer the internet. And nothing bosses bandwith more than our feline friends.  So…meet Adolf Kitler!

I was talking to a very interesting American on Steemit just last week. It was a fascinating exchange (he had some well thought out and considered views) and we covered a lot of ground. We were rarely

Trust me, you know a few. Hey, you might even be one! Let me explain.    From a human perspective, there is no such thing as a fixed, universal reality. From a cold, scientific point of view,

I am not very keen on inter-generational criticism, whichever way it goes. There is enough divisiveness to go around it seems to me, without age dividing us too.  The fact that a couple of decades can