Year: 2022

DEAR ABBY: I’m 55 and own my home. “Randall,” 53, lives with me and pays me rent. We used to be a couple, but COVID caused too much togetherness. He’s in the spare bedroom now. My house is cheaper for him than anywhere else he could go. I was trying to be nice.

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions”
JR Leach – Off-Guardian Dec 25, 2022


The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.”
Alan W. Watts
This festive season I thought I’d share my admiration for the ‘philosophical entertainer’ who helped bring about a cultural awakening in the mid-twentieth century: Alan Watts.

Kurt Zindulka – Briebart.com Dec 26, 2022
A new record of illegal boat migrant arrivals was set on Christmas day in Britain, with the Ministry of Defence reporting that 90 migrants were brought ashore on Sunday.
Capping off a record year for illegal migration in the English Channel, in which over 45,000 have crossed the busy waterway in often dangerously flimsy rubber boats from the beaches of France, a further 90 migrants were brought ashore after crossing in two boats on Christmas day.