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While perusing the headlines today I came across this in The Atlantic monthly magazine.

It's a Pattern: London Rioters Are Leaving Bookstores Untouched

While the rioters in England this week have looted shops selling shoes, clothes, computers, and plasma televisions, they've curiously bypassed one particular piece of merchandise: books. The Economist observes that while rioters have a centuries-old history of book burning, "books are losing out to high-end jeans

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I have decided to open up my personal belief system of Orthodox Secularism to the general public, and herewith take this opportunity to invite the wealthier members of the forum to join my little sect. As I am, of necessity, the Principal Archimandrite of Secular Orthodoxy, I am particularly keen to attract millionaires to my congregation, their tithes being so much more worthwhile than widow’s mites.

There is, as you would expect, no bowing, scraping or genuflection required of the

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I wonder if I'm strange. If the way I see the world is somehow different to others. Ah well. I wasn't going to do this. There's enough stories and opinions and accounts of what's been happening over here lately and I didn't want to add to them at all. I was just going to assure everyone of my safety and be done with it but I might as well put this out there too.
I can't say much about the riots themselves, having not experienced them first hand, nor the fires, the looting, the fear, the ...

What can I say?

I am stunned!

This civilisation thing is just a thin veneer in humans and chaos can erupt in an instance.

It is always the minority though spoil it for the rest.

But no one should makes excuses for them.

These rioters and looters are not socially disfranchised. They were wearing latest gear from Nike and ...

When we moved into our house, we discovered to our delight that the close – a dead end road with no through traffic - had quite a community of old folks living in it. It was very friendly, and, as my wife and I don’t drive, we would regularly see the other residents wandering round to the shops or walking the dogs. We soon got to know all of them, in particular Old Frank who lived over the road.

He was an irascible, bluff character who had served in the Fleet Air Arm in WW2. He would ...