When last did you really need help from complete strangers? Last week my wife, daughter, and a friend headed down to the beach to ride the horses (yup, the same ones I wrote about here). To get to the beach from where the hay-burners are kept is about a kilometre

Early 2012 Argentina’s oil industry was controlled by Repsol, the Spanish energy giant, through YPF, its local subsidiary. By the end of the year, this was no longer the case. By then President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner’s leftist government had nationalised the oil sector, stealing YPF with the stroke of a

Ahhhh… isn’t that sweet? Well, actually NO. It is predictable, though. Trump and Kanye are both narcissists who suffer from the cult of celebrity. Kanye even married one of the dumbest woman on planet earth. A completely insipid vapid woman who, I will remind you, is world famous despite the

It’s ironic that while the boy child in charge of the world’s largest surveillance program feigns concern and those in charge feign outrage, the theft of intellectual property is being used as a weapon by the US government against China. As to Zuckerberg… Well, he hasn’t (to our knowledge) done

Self annihilation, that is. We’re following the path of a plant. Recently I watched in amazement a neighbours plant. Agave franzosinii or “Majestic Agave”, they call it and here’s a picture. Not the real one. That one’s now dead. Something like 6 months ago my neighbour’s plant began to grow a