Human beings are social animals. The motivation to communicate seems among the strongest needs of human beings. The desire to maintain links with family intuitively makes sense, yet gossiping around t… more →
DUCKPONDwmmbb wrote 2 weeks ago: Human beings are social animals. The motivation to communicate seems among the strongest needs of hu … more →
wmmbb wrote 1 month ago: The question that does not go away for me is: How did G W Bush become President of the United States … more →
wmmbb wrote 3 months ago: I am not familiar with the literature on opinion leadership, but I suppose public intellectuals who … more →
wmmbb wrote 4 months ago: One of the long term effects of the Illawarra Ideas Summit is that it gave a sense of other people … more →
wmmbb wrote 4 months ago: Ideas must be worked through, and out they come, concrete or otherwise. I suppose it takes time to p … more →
wmmbb wrote 4 months ago: We have seen much about the statements of Reverend Jeremiah Wright who was Obama’s pastor, but … more →
wmmbb wrote 4 months ago: On Unleased at ABC Online, writer Bob Ellis considers the increasing number of male suicides in Aust … more →
wmmbb wrote 5 months ago: The nature of things, I suppose, is that we are likely for fall for general assumptions, which somet … more →
wmmbb wrote 5 months ago: How is that a small country like Israel has such an effective propaganda service? Why is it that the … more →
wmmbb wrote 6 months ago: Here is a recent episode of ABC’s The Spirit of Things. The mystics are far out, but interesti … more →
wmmbb wrote 6 months ago: An Indian cricket player calls an Australian player, “a big monkey”. Australian crickete … more →
wmmbb wrote 6 months ago: Such was the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, although it too was denied by people living o … more →
wmmbb wrote 8 months ago: The apparent paradox is that peace is sought, most obviously at the macro-level, using the means of … more →
wmmbb wrote 9 months ago: Naomi Klein, speaking at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alterantives said: We need the CCPA to remin … more →
wmmbb wrote 9 months ago: The reference in J Howard’s campaign launch speech to minimal standards of primary education s … more →
wmmbb wrote 9 months ago: And who is listening? Some weeks ago P Costello was warning about the financial tsunami that was goi … more →
wmmbb wrote 9 months ago: I have two degrees, yet I am still working class. People seem confused about class membership in our … more →
wmmbb wrote 10 months ago: While it is not the message of guru Tom Peters and his team, with the new computer technology the du … more →
wmmbb wrote 10 months ago: John Quiggin raises an interesting, and to me intriguing question in relation to why do the American … more →