When I was growing up in the 1950s British midlands, a common sight was children wearing leg callipers. They were recovering from Polio. Everyone knew someone who’d had polio. My grandmother had had it as a child, and her height never exceeded 4 ft 5 inches. My junior school teacher had it as an adult,Continue reading “Vaccinations – a common-sense view”
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U.S.A.I.D
I was sickened to read the other day, that Musk/Trump (Mump) is considering stopping USAID – started in 1961 by JFK. The article I read went on to say that “foreign aid doesn’t poll well in the US”. Well guess what… foreign aid doesn’t ‘poll well’ anywhere. Most governments don’t ask the voters for theirContinue reading “U.S.A.I.D”
Anthropogenic Global Warming… or not?
The Elfstedentocht is the biggest ice-skating tour in the world. It’s held in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands, and it’s a circular route 200 km long, passing through all eleven historical cities of the province. It used to be held every whenever the ice was more than 15 cm thick, on average every 2 –Continue reading “Anthropogenic Global Warming… or not?”
What’s wrong with America?
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” – John F. Kennedy “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries, whenContinue reading “What’s wrong with America?”
Trump and the GOP
For all of his failings, you have to admit that Trump does seem to have a sense of irony. As the person who made 30,573 fact-checked false or misleading claims whilst president, he calls his social media site Truth Social. And as the president who added $7.8 trillion to the national debt, gave tax-breaks to theContinue reading “Trump and the GOP”
Trump’s Republican Party
This article is about the modern Republican party. I’m not talking about what the Republican party or ‘Grand Old Party’ (The GOP) used to be: I’m talking about Donald Trump’s MAGA Republican party, which has positioned itself far to the right of Eisenhower’s 1956 Republican platform. I’m British, but lived in the States for sixContinue reading “Trump’s Republican Party”
My Quora answers
Well some of them at least… If the Earth has been proven to be a flat spinning disc, why don’t we fly off the edge due to centrifugal force? Proof is the preserve of mathematicians and the manufacturers of hard liquor. So no scientist would ever claim that the Earth was ‘proven’ to be anything.Continue reading “My Quora answers”
The end of democracy?
Introduction My name is Rod Jones, and perhaps some of you may know me from Quora where I’ve recently discovered that my contributions have been read nearly 4 million times, with more than 92,000 upvotes… very gratifying! My stuff on Quora has been as diverse as politics, climate change, cosmology and map-making, and mostly IContinue reading “The end of democracy?”
America… beautiful but dumb?
America has vibrant cities such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, etc. and stunning and diverse scenery including the Grand Canyon, Yosemite and the Sierra Nevadas, The Adirondacks, Glacier National Park, Zion National Park, Yellowstone, and Death Valley. For years, people from other countries aspired to live in America, or at a minimum,Continue reading “America… beautiful but dumb?”
