2014 — 1 July: Tuesday — rabbits!
Reasonably bright, not too hot, ideal for a small-scale adventure, methinks.1
Just how many...
... North American lawyers and (usually male) Supreme Court 'Justices' can actually dance on the head of a hypodermic?
This seems to be very bad decision which seems to be based on two very odd ideas. The first is that a corporation can have religious beliefs. The second is that the religious beliefs of
a corporation trump the responsibilities that they would otherwise have to their female employees.
Whatever your views on the question of whether birth control should be a basic right (and I think it is — for pragmatic reasons if nothing else), how could anyone believe that
whether or not birth control should be provided is a question of whether a company (a legal entity) believes in god?
I simply do not understand the objection on that side of the Pond to universal healthcare. (And observe, with horror, what seems to be happening over here to 'my' NHS.)
Back from...
... my small-scale adventure, I've just been listening to the Diane Rehm show on exactly the Supreme Court2 decision above — and the way it's rapidly been dividing and polarising public opinion over there — while I've also been scanning the covers of my four latest bookish acquisitions:
Guess who finally called in at the new branch of Waterstone's that opened in Ringwood at Easter? I still wonder whatever happened to my bookseller chum Tony Martin who used to be there.
Some promises...
... really aren't worth the virtual paper they're printed on. Take this one from the lads who work in the vicinity of Uncle ERNIE. They want me to 'invest' in a "new" cash ISA:
What's more, as NS&I is backed by HM Treasury, you can rest assured your savings are completely secure.
Translation: we can always print more 'money' when/if we need to 'pay' you back. I shan't even bother to ponder the question of where I might find £15,000 per year to perform this mythical investing.