Tag Archives: insight

Gender: It’s All Cats and Dogs

Something I can’t stand are the ridiculous and often offensive stereotypes about gender that society finds the need to nail into our unsuspecting minds from birth and are only to be thrown off by those smart enough to think outside the narrow social square … well, if it is narrow it is really a rectangle. …

September 15, 2010 – 5:56 pm | By H.G. Rodgers | Posted in Babble, Emotions, Insights, Metaphysical Speculations, Ponderings, Society | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Fish and and and and and Chips: A Conversation About Grammer

For a generation that communicates daily through writing we seem to have a dangerously relaxed view on basic grammar; so much so that I am actually afraid for the breakdown of the English language. The biggest problem: people don’t even realise they’ve done anything wrong. It’s only when someone else goes to read your writing …

August 23, 2010 – 5:35 pm | By H.G. Rodgers | Posted in Facts, Insights, Ponderings, Society | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (7)

America Sucks … Literally

What is really, really big and highly absorbent? Why, it’s America of course! Sucking up everything from global economies to opportunity. The question is, when will someone give it a nice long squeeze?

August 1, 2010 – 9:54 pm | By H.G. Rodgers | Posted in Insights, Performing Arts, Ponderings, Society | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (6)

Dating and Accessorising: There is a Line…

There is game that, it seems, we are all fated to play: dating. Of course, it goes by many names — some of which depend entirely on how someone plays the game — but all of which amount to the equivalent anthropological meaning of seeking a mate and society with other humans. Courting, escorting, one-night-stands, …

May 1, 2010 – 4:22 pm | By H.G. Rodgers | Posted in Babble, Insights, Metaphysical Speculations, Ponderings, Society | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)