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Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 708 of re-modified lock down Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and very slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 337 As is befitting someone with self-diagnosed narcissistic personality disorder I will first talk about myself before getting around to PJ O’Rourke and myContinue reading “A Tribute to the Late PJ O’Rourke and Brett Stephen Cronje and Ruminations on Ukraine and Military Service”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 701 of re-modified lockdown Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and very slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 330 days Perhaps it reflects a lack of imagination that I provide a sequel to my Christmas hydrogen blog only two months after Christmas. https://ruminantpinkfriday.com/2021/12/24/christmas-eve-ruminations-regarding-a-christmas-grinch-innovation-green-hydrogen-and-the-next-financial-crisis/.Continue reading “Ruminations on the Christmas grinch sequel being a hydrogen party-pooper and dead cats”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 694 of re-modified lockdown Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and very slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 323 days I am one of those boring old farts who started accumulating assets with the goal of ultimately becoming financially independent during my twenties.Continue reading “Ruminations Regarding Politically Incorrect Financial Advice to Younger South Africans”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 687 of re-modified lockdown Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and very slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 316 days My name is Bruce, and I am an engineer. I have worked with numbers my whole life. I can recite the first 8Continue reading “Ruminations on leadership, numeracy, and transcending numeracy in the context of the journey to net-zero.”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 680 of re-modified lockdown Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and very slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 309 days Today’s rumination is about how different people deal with being wrong and how other people deal with the person in the wrong.  IfContinue reading “Ruminations about consensus, being wrong, shouting at each other, and no-platforming”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 673 of re-modified lockdown Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and very slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 302 days The opioid crisis is extremely topical now, and I have recently watched the two-part four-hour Netflix documentary, “Crime of the Century”. I doContinue reading “Ruminations regarding the classification of doctors and other professionals in the context of climate change”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 667 of re-modified lock down Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 295 days As those of you who know me are aware I am a grumpy, cis-gender male, oldish, technocratic fossil who has spent 30 yearsContinue reading “Ruminations of a Fossil Regarding the Just Energy Transition”

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”