Someone once told me, “99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.” To which I replied, “1% of doctors give the rest a good name.” Come to think of it, though, I don’t know ANY evil lawyers personally, and only a handful of doctors so bad, I wouldn’t entrust them with my pet cockroach. […]
Chances are, your mother taught you to wash your hands (with soap and water!) before eating (and after visiting the loo). Chances are, you still do (well, most of the time anyway). But where does this practise come from? We know from the Good Book that the Jews had hand-washing rituals for as long as
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – HS Haskins (though also attributed to many other “soft philosophers”) We’re at the beginning of a (slightly shop-soiled) new year. Somehow, that feels grand and important to most of us. Behind us lies a year of
