He watched her walk by, he had always fancied her from the first time Tim had brought her home."Fancy a drink?" he offered, "I've got whisky." Yeah wh...y not," she said. Together they sat there drinking their neat whisky. Over the top of his glass he took in her trim figure. She had good legs and always wore the shortest of skirts to show them off, even today, on this sad occasion, her only concession was her skirt was black.If he was going to end everything, he might as well go out with a bang.. I had the ship set a course for Raintree, and considered my luck. How many people went out, and never discovered anything close to what I had just come across? Most exploration was done by large companies that made their money charting and mapping the galaxy, or by governments.I settled into a routine for the trip back. I also went over and over the chip, trying to wring out any further information I could get. I called up all the news reports that my ship had copied, at my last port.I made a. He had seen on FB that she had a beautiful daughter. She was lucky he supposed. His own life was a train wreck. What did John have? He had material things: six motorbikes including his coveted 821 Monster “Dark” Ducati in Taipei, an Aston Martin, Hermes leather jackets, expensive this, expensive that. Yeah he “had it all” according to some people’s measures. But inside he was a void, a nothing; he felt like a complete empty shell. What did it all mean? John had tried to distract himself of. .. Well, will you look at that ... I'm getting a fax!!Gotta love the 'old gals'!!!!Democracy and RacismA Muslim asks his mother, "Mama, what's the difference between Democracy and Racism?"Mother dressed in her Burkha says "Well, son, Democracy is when the UK tax payers work hard every day so that we can get all our benefits you know, like free housing, free health care, free education and grants to build our mosques and community centres, and so on, and so forth, you know that's a.