Another day, and more madness.

It's become evident that our bankers can't do their sums and, before anyone defends the education system, look at the latest news from the British educational sphere.  The new Diploma in the UK, hailed as THE qualification to have, has a two-thirds failure rate.  Grammar and spelling, we are told, had a lot to do with it. 
But the youngsters aren't to blame, it has been stated.  The standard of education, needed to attain the qualification, particularly in lite...

Common Sense died today.
He finally succumbed to the cancer that had been threatening his life for more than a decade.
And he will be sadly missed worldwide by those who lived by his teachings.
The death comes as a shock to many who had expected death from one of his frequent flights out of the window.
In the past few years he was in and out of the window with the frequency of a fiddler's elbow. Eventually, few of us noticed the duration of the flights as the cancer took hold and the short-haul j...