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Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 660 of re-modified lockdown Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 288 days As is the case with many of you I am on several WhatsApp and social media chat groups and an article by another grumpyContinue reading “Ruminations of a Grumpy Unfashionable Older South African”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 653 of Re-Modified LockDown Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and slowly decreasing Omicron Hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 281 days I am going to kick off 2021 with some thoughts about the Malthus debate. Thomas Malthus wrote an essay in 1798 on population growthContinue reading “Ruminations Regarding Sustainable Economic Growth, Oxymorons, and the Malthusian Debate”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 647 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and slowly decreasing Omicron Hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 274 days My last blog of 2021 merits some narcissistic navel-gazing. So why is it that I write this weekly blog? Some years back forContinue reading “Navel Gazing Narcissistic Ruminations of a Bully Regarding our Place in the Universe to Complete 2021”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 640 of Re-Modified LockDown Level 1 with Alcohol and increasing Omicron Hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 267 days In the spirit of ultimately revealing all my dirty little secrets, I can today reveal what my family already knows. There is a lot about Christmas thatContinue reading “Christmas Eve Ruminations Regarding a Christmas Grinch, Innovation, Green Hydrogen, and the Next Financial Crisis”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 633 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 with Alcohol and an Omicron Storm. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 260 days The Omicron storm is raging in South Africa and around the world. There is global Omicron hysteria. It’s not helping. On 16 December there were 24Continue reading “Ruminations Regarding a Samurai”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 626 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 with Alcohol and the Omicron variant. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 247 days This week my Ruminank Pink Friday ™ submission is a day early because we are packing our buckets, spades, dogs, golf clubs, and the kitchen sinkContinue reading “Ruminations on the Shell Boycott and Human Confusion”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 619 of Re-Modified LockDown Level 1 with Alcohol and the Omicron variant. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 240 days Johannesburg is now enjoying the start of the 4th wave of Covid 19 which appears to be caused by the omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus.  ThisContinue reading “Ruminations on the Omicron Variant, Fermi Estimation and Questions”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 612 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 and with alcohol. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 233 days In the afternoon of Wednesday 17 November Nerine, my wife had an appointment at the dentist in Johannesburg. I was playing online chess when the phone started ringing incessantly.Continue reading “Ruminations on policies and the terms and conditions”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 605 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 and with alcohol. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 226 days Although I have a rapidly growing band of highly devoted groupies, I confess that I admire certain non-conventional thinkers and I was one of David Graebers groupies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber HeContinue reading “A Tribute to Bullshit Jobs and David Graeber My Favourite Anarchist”

The logo for hopium Aweh dearly beloved fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 598 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 1 and with alcohol. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 219 days This week I am going to go back into my comfort zone and discuss energy. This is extremely topical both in South Africa and globally.Continue reading “Ruminations on Energy – The Master Resource, Oompa Loompas, and Hopium”