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Recognise yourself?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 20/01/2017
» In this atomic-digital era, millennia-old mysteries are constantly being solved, but one will never be: How long will each of us live? Life insurance company mathematicians, pharmaceutical company chemists, astrologers, fortune-tellers et al are tackling it from different directions, none agreeing. Barring wars, epidemics and droughts, we are aware that we are living longer than our ancestors, women especially. The old are a "problem". The age of retirement is moving up around the world. How long before it reaches 70? Which lengthens the time for 20-year-olds to advance.
The Cold War: Phase 2
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 18/04/2016
» The implosion of the Soviet empire was greeted with a sigh of relief in democracies by all but the cloak-and-dagger novelists. Who would replace the Soviet Union as the common enemy? To be sure, terrorists are sinister, but they lack the cohesiveness that was a mark of the KGB.
The future isn't now
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 04/04/2016
» I can well understand the conflict caused by the publication of The Origin Of The Species. If correct, Charles Darwin's finding turned the Holy Book -- Earth was created in six days, Adam and Eve -- into a work of fiction. Humans ascended, over billions of years, from the bottom to the top of the food chain. Where is God in all of this?
Kinky sex victim
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 05/05/2014
» It is said that the male sex drive is at its strongest in the teenage years, while for the female, it is in her 30s. Throughout years together, couples tend to get bored. This is why they act out fantasies, take lovers, buy special toys or try Viagra.
Psychos among us
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 03/03/2014
» We live. We die. In between, we do the best we can with what we’ve got. All too many survive rather than live. Yet rich or poor, we have hopes and dreams. Luck of birth, education, hard work and experience enable us to achieve them. Love, marriage, families, war, economic slowdowns — all but speed-bumps.
Fateful decisions
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 14/10/2013
» Whether history shapes men or men shape history is a tricky question, as both are true at different times _ often at the same time. Be that as it may, beyond doubt two men shaped the 20th century. Both were tyrants (who was "worse" is still being argued).
A Roman bladewielder
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 06/08/2012
» There are anomalies about the ancient world that defy explanation. Such as why Mussolini's efforts in the 20th century to revive the glory that was Rome two millennia before failed. Excuses about poor modern-day equipment don't cut it. Clearly they lacked the requisite vital ingredient of their ancestors. They needed poison gas to subdue the backward Ethiopians.