One word shows how much we’ve changed the way we talk about race

… is my first offering this afternoon …

Jonathan Pie on one of his best rolls ever … is my second.

They are connected.


North Korea humiliates Trump even more with secret nuclear production

I thought we are all agreed that Trump cannot be humiliated?


🔗 ⚽️ World Cup 2018: Brazil hitting form in time for Mexico showdown

My money has been on Brazil since the beginning … and I know nothing about football.



Restaurant manager in Canada fired for refusing service to customer in MAGA hat

I remember when people removed any hat before they sat down to eat …. another sign of ‘progress’ I guess.


Well, This Japanese Private Rocket Launch Certainly Could Have Gone Better … or maybe they have discovered some anti thrust technology - the video certainly suggests the usual laws of physics are broken … like @jack and his kindle books ;-)


Amazon jumping Into the Drug Business

It is already in the Wine business and expanding that business in many ways … it is of course a perfect balance

More wine faster wine … plus pills … what could possibly go wrong?

Unless the pills get rid of the hangover faster?


Sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison dies at 84

… so now there are no writers left to pay.


Beer is being rationed in the UK … thought that was an Onion headline … but no.


You often see signs in stores and restaurants and bars and …. saying that they have the right to refuse to serve anyone … so … do they?



People: Alan and Margaret

Alan from the mid west, Margaret from the East Coast, met, married and started a family in Ohio.

Alan was someone who lived by the rules, so it took ‘Madge’ to show Alan an advert for a job opportunity in California.

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The fourth of my series … ‘Real Stories of Real People – Travels Without Charley’. …. has been published on BIZCATALYST 360°.

This one is about Candy.


People: Brad

Brad studied and graduated in Aerodynamics and then went on to work in Florida, before moving to Virginia as an Aeronautical Engineer.

And then he ‘had the rug pulled out from under him’.

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Trump’s America … you just got to click through and watch.


Remember this? …. the very next day I just ran through it again … added 8 more !! Great way to find new peeps.


Tony Blair calls on US to stand by Europe

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it … does it make a noise?