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Weapon of choice
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/04/2019
» In my army days, we were issued used M1 rifles. They were heavy and either had hair triggers or they had to be pulled way back before firing, by which time the target had moved.
Best of the best
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 16/02/2018
» Generations have their popular writers, but centuries' literary legends are few. Hugo and Tolstoy qualified, Hemingway and Grisham, Goethe and Dickens. Not to mention Shakespeare and Cervantes.
Women aren't dumb
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 16/12/2016
» Men have the notion that women aren't as bright as they are -- it's in the genes or something, can't be helped -- and that they are the easier to fool. When they find out this isn't so, the swindlers blame themselves for not having tried harder. Whether females are more astute than males is another question.
The Fourth Reich?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 30/05/2016
» Whereas the guns going quiet with a ceasefire (armistice) marked the finis of World War I, World War II ended with unconditional surrender. Tens of millions, soldiers and civilians, perished in both struggles. The sides realigned in the Cold War with far fewer deaths.
Painful memories
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 08/06/2015
» We have all been in embarrassing situations, usually of our own making, and can't forget it. Fewer have been humiliated. Fewer still shamed. For those who have been, it was surely a truly traumatic experience.
The robber barons
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/12/2016
» When the USSR imploded with the failure of its 75-year experiment with communism, it was every man for himself. As capitalism was working in the US, why not try it? With no equivalent of America's Wall Street, Russians eschewed stocks and bonds and went for the money.
The root of all evil
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 29/02/2016
» There are three kinds of people; (1) those who are told not to step on the third rail because it will electrocute them, and don't; (2) those who read the warning sign, and don't; (3) those who only believe what they experience themselves, and do.
Now what?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 23/06/2014
» Whether created in seven days, according to the Good Book, or in seven billion years, according to astronomers, it is generally agreed that the time will come when Earth is no more. “The end is nigh!” has long been a standing joke, but no longer elicits universal laughter.
An army sleuth
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 05/11/2012
» Homer to Hemingway, Chaucer to Cromwell, Boccaccio to Baldacci, not only good stories but the way they are told make the best authors. Not to mention interesting characters, plots you can see yourself parts of, twists and turns.
An invincible hero
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 17/12/2012
» In his first novel, Brit Victor Robert Lee is aiming high, his literary creation Cono meant to be on the same lofty level as James Bond and Jason Bourne. In Performance Anomalies, a cloak-and-dagger thriller, the first of a series, the hero is pretty much a cypher.