'Friendly Fire' and fatuous fibbing, part.1

Saturday, August 21, 2010

I know it's characteristic of ageing to develop a chronic and increasingly deep-seated pessimism / cynicism about everything that goes on around you. And yes, I admit, I'm heading in that direction. My wife Ginny tells me that's "because you don't have enough to do." By which she means, I'm assuming, that retirement's giving me too much time, and, thus, opportunity, to sit and brood over stuff I can't do anything about anyway. The growing severity of the world's "population explosion," for instance.

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