US President from 1945 to 1953, Harry Truman, had a sign on his desk: The buck stops here. Every democrat should peruse Canadian philosopher John R. Saul’s Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West and his The Unconscious Civilization. For example, a private New York maternity hospital in 2020 paid its CEO $80m, including share options and bonuses. As we know, these hot days do not last long, but we are being told to save water, not to use hose pipes, etc. In my younger days, women wore hotpants and men long pants at this time of the year.

Source: Irish Independent July 23, 2021 01:30 UTC