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A new sleuth
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/09/2017
» Society is based on the deal that in return for protection and security, the authorities have permission to define our rights, inalienable and otherwise. Laws and regulations apply. Nothing is more disconcerting than when they overstep their limits.
Excellent research
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 07/10/2016
» Though over for three-score-and-10 years, with many of its combatants gone to the Happy Hunting Ground, the World War II is still being written about and regurgitated in film. Little wonder, as tens of millions of soldiers and civilians were killed in it, courtesy of the Fuhrer and General Tojo.
A Cold War thriller
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/09/2016
» It's a fact of human nature that some wars stick to the mind more than others. World War I rings a faint bell, the Spanish-American War none at all. The Korean War sounds a tinkle. The Vietnam is receding from memory. The Gulf War came and went.
Dirty politics abound
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/03/2013
» Every two, four, six years, posters fill the streets of men or women with the same message: "Vote for me for a better government." They also appear on TV saying the same thing, with the additional assertion that the others saying it are lying scoundrels, not to be trusted.
Worth your while
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 07/01/2013
» Like every youngster _ well, some at least _ I wanted to know everything there was to know. Not that I liked school that much. With all the inventions up to that time surely, I thought, there ought to be one that could be placed on my head by a scientist and, zap, my brain would be filled.