Common sense not so common

We learn much folk wisdom – some couched in semi-superstition – either from other people or simply from experience. I USED to muse that there seems, these days, to be a lack of common sense, the wisdom that comes from basic knowledge and experience. Everyone seems to be more interested in fantasising about...

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All awash with phobias

If ever there’s a phobia one can promote, it should be a true loathing of graft in any form, regardless of it being the petty everyday variety or the major million dollar ones. I’VE been thinking about phobias lately because there seem to be so many around. I have a phobia about snakes; I simply don’t like...

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