Our species is truly awful.

I saw a video that won’t leave me, of male chicks being tossed alive into a burning container because they are no use to the egg industry. Because people like eating eggs and egg products. This is worse than seeing chicks chucked onto a conveyor that drops them into a grinder, that, at least, is… Continue reading Our species is truly awful.

Lives of my forebears

I often think about how improbable my existence is but, more importantly, all those who went before, to get me here. No rich people in my past, although some, relatively recently, were moderately comfortably off, I probably have the most affluent life of my whole line. I believe the 14th century to have been the… Continue reading Lives of my forebears