Does one achieve more by leaps and bounds than by fits and starts?
If we keep insisting that we need “passion” to achieve anything, then leaping and bounding would very likely not go amiss. This leaves wobbly and inconstant fits and starts to procrastinators, late-bloomers or to the merely timid.
Richard Orlando, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
• Success often seems to be achieved by hook or by crook, with emphasis on the latter.
Joan Dawson, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• It depends if you aspire to be a ballet dancer or a Formula One driver.
David Isaacs, Sydney, Australia
• Depends on your performance at hop, step and jump, or, if you’re in a lighter mood, at shake, rattle and roll.
Mac Ronan, Melbourne, Australia
• Neither. One is, however, likely to achieve more by starts with bounds than by leaps with fits.
David Turner, Bellevue Heights, South Australia
• The very idea of achieving anything by leaping and bounding about is starting to give me a fit.
Margaret Wyeth, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• The frog, the kangaroo and the long jumper do, but not the learner driver.
David Hinkley, Santa Barbara, California, US
Is there one on the ballot?
Should we let computers vote?
Why not? They already subvert democracy with self-fulfilling prophesies of election results.
Lawrie Bradly, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
• Yes, if one of their own was in the running.
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
• Only if they can form an orderly queue at the polling station.
David Tucker, Halle, Germany
• My Mac is intellectually inept unless I’m there, and I’d have a meltdown if it tried to vote against me: not possible!
Julie Andrews, Yorkeys Knob, Queensland, Australia
• The 2000 US presidential election clearly showed that “we” have already done so.
I despair.
Donna Samoyloff, Toronto, Canada
• It wouldn’t be PC.
Roger Morrell, Perth, Western Australia
• Not if they behave like Hal.
Ursula Nixon, Bodalla, NSW, Australia
• Not one bit!
Michael Davis, Sydney, Australia
A very deadly app indeed
Is war genetically driven?
Yes and no. It is an app, attached at point of manufacture to the Y chromosome only. Unfortunately, it is also embedded in the US constitution. It is the ultimate malware, lying low until a spike in testosterone causes it to take over the organism.
Mary Garnett, Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada
• If it is, we need not worry about climate change.
Philip Stigger, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
The defining generation
We had an X generation, a Y generation ... How will we define the next generation.
We will not define the next generation; it will define us.
Jennifer Horat, Lengwil, Switzerland
• Sadly it may be Generation A of the apocalypse.
Alan Geldart, Toronto, Canada
• I don’t subscribe to the advocacy for Gen Alpha but I could go along with Gen AI – the Artificial Intelligence cohort.
David Czifra, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
• Generation Less.
Stuart Hertzog, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Any answers?
How can housework be shared when one spouse wants to clean weekly and the other monthly?
Norman Coe, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain
What makes for an unholy alliance?
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
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