life

Doubleplusbad from GSmudger 130 days old

Why do so many supposedly bright and well educated people despise the English language so passionately? It seems the passing of formal education in our ...

A Nugget of Zeitgeist from GSmudger 209 days old

Between bouts of despair brought on in no particular order by morphine patches, chronic pain, the ultimate futility of existence, the false promise of ...

Can Anyone Explain This? from GSmudger 235 days old

[ ... ] own life to give birth to her rapist’s offspring - are to be excommunicated. Can anyone explain this to me? Can anyone convince ...

Dance Little Man from GSmudger 302 days old

When it comes to judging how far we've come down the road from the class-bound, hierarchical Britain of yore to the golden New Labour meritocracy we've ...

Children Of The Revolution from GSmudger 304 days old

[ ... ] London life that only the Underground can deliver - intimacy with reeking strangers, tooth-rattling inertia, the parched and ionised breath of ...

A Christmas Message from GSmudger 325 days old

[ ... ] life and save the world from the powers of darkness? Well tonight, thank God it's Bono instead of you. Still, here's to Uncle Frank and ...

Inaction Man from GSmudger 395 days old

Yesterday, I experienced paraspinal lumbar injections with the benefit of full consciousness and a fair view of the near-live xrays guiding the surgeon's ...

That's Entertainment from GSmudger 419 days old

[ ... ] life on either end of the microscope. No offence. So, I may watch Jeremy Kyle in a knowing, ironic, post-modern way, but I'm still ...

Can Suicide Ever Be Justified? (extract from Helium debate) from GSmudger 504 days old

[ ... ] life overlap unavoidably. It is however instructive that the most vocal opposition to the lethal exercise of mercy tends to come from ...

Keep Watching This Space from GSmudger 605 days old

I'd like to offer my appreciation to the surprising number of people who tune in to this blog on a daily basis, particularly those who join in now and ...