Browsed by
Tag: war

THE QUESTION LEAST ASKED AND MOST NEEDED

THE QUESTION LEAST ASKED AND MOST NEEDED

Comments 10 Comments

The Moody Blues’ 1970 hit “Ques­tion” opened, appro­pri­ate­ly, with the lines: “Why do we nev­er get an answer/When we’re knock­ing at the door/With a thou­sand mil­lion questions/About hate and death and war?”…”
In a world where those three ills are at pan­dem­ic lev­el, the answer may well be because the ques­tion “why” isn’t asked often enough.… Read the rest

AN ARCHAIC WORD SUMS UP A MODERN FAILURE

AN ARCHAIC WORD SUMS UP A MODERN FAILURE

Comments 4 Comments

Sum­mits, which typ­i­cal­ly have more to do with words than actions, are habit­u­al­ly known by their acronym, which leaves the field wide open for re-inter­pre­ta­tion. I there­fore sug­gest that in the case of the major play­ers in COP27, the “P” — which stands for “Par­ties” — be replaced with the plur­al of an archa­ic Eng­lish epi­thet: “poltroon”.… Read the rest