No more excuses, please…

I love listening to excuses, because those are really imaginative, and so ingenious. They are like cell phones searching for a signal - as they cast about for an appropriate loophole to let them off the hook. As Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography, “So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature,

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Vignettes

Let religion and philosophy co-exist

There have been numerous philosophers and philosophies since the pre-Socratic era. We have discussed many philosophies in these columns only to show that no philosophy is foolproof or valid for all times.

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Thorns on the Side

Internet and privacy issues

Watching television used to be a passive experience. You just watch what appears on the screen. The TV cannot talk back to you or interact with you in any way. It surely is a window to the world, but a one way one.

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