This has been at the back of my mind ever since the Will Smith / Chris Rock incident last week. This is an except from Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" which remains one of the most influential books in my life to this day,
Today's from Moneyweb : "Take note if you are conducting a business from your private residence — Ratepayers must comply with their zoning provisions."
So I hop across to Moneyweb. Story reads:
One of the things that my mother and I have in common (apart from the fact that 50 percent of my genes come from her) is our love of certain writers.
Peter O'Donnell, creator of Modesty Blaise, is probably at the top of the list. Less well known is that O'Donnell also wrote gothic historical romance novel under the female pseudonym Madeleine Brent.
This is a transcript of my off-the-cuff thoughts on this subject on the Liberty and Friends show last week.
I had a rare opportunity to spend three weeks in Harare, Zimbabwe between February and March. Here are some things I learned.
Seasonal rainfall is huge concern for most Zimbabweans because almost every person I encountered is into farming.
Relatively small patches of land are used for planting maize and sugar beans, which means that late or failing rains have consequences.
Poultry farming is ubiquitous.
One can order egg incubators and have them delivered to your home.
A high-school friend who is a singer / songwriter shared a new composition with our class group yesterday. It's a very catchy jingle with its core theme in the chorus:
Is it one God or some religion
That everybody needs
Or do we shake those shackles off
And use reason as our belief
... online meetings have become a thing for even obscure corners of the world.
Three rainy seasons in a row have failed in the Horn of Africa and its surroundings.
Some years ago, I drove from Johannesburg to Lüderitz on the Namibian coast for a friend’s wedding.
As I approached the town, the dysfunctional railway line which once linked Keetmanshoop to Bahnhof Lüderitz (as the Germans who built it in 1906 called it), frequently vanished under shifting desert sands. In the town, the station itself was derelict.
Construction of the railway line by the Germans took 9 months. Let me quote a well-documented historical account :
Theodore Roosevelt is said to have said: “If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”
There's an abundance of wildlife video showing hyenas taking down lions. The hyenas attack the lion's testicles first. This causes the lion to sit down and then it's all over.
