It's true, anyone can blog. Onegoodmove reader Mike starts a blog.

An interesting article on Israel and justice.

Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take on the role of TV's most famous time traveller.

Simon Singh is an author focusing on science and mathematics for the general public. His books include Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem, The Code Book, and Big Bang. He has produced a number of documentaries for television on science topics, and is a trustee of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, and the National Museum of Science and Industry, both in the United Kingdom. He is currently being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association for comments he wrote in a column in The Guardian. His newest book, co-authored with Dr. Edzard Ernst, is Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine.

My father only said one thing to me of any importance and it was especially notable because he said so little. I was about seven and we were passing a garden. He said: "Look into that garden. Do you notice anything?" I said it was over-manicured. He said, yes, but there is an oddity - a wooden wheelbarrow painted white with plants in it. "People tend to glance," he said. "They don't really pay attention. Always look for the hidden and the interesting - be a good observer."

My father was kindly and gentle but distant. My mother was difficult, not affectionate, fiery tempered and controlling. She was an angry, frustrated woman, the sort of person you avoid. I was a late mistake and my mother used to say, "It was so annoying I got pregnant with you." But we didn't have a difficult relationship. She'd tell me: "I don't have to worry about you. You're as smart as a bag full of monkeys."

She did teach me about love. She said that most people think what they feel in the first flush of a relationship is love. It isn't. It's infatuation. You can only talk about loving somebody when you've lived with them for 10 years, with the smelly socks and the quarrels. Only then will you know what you mean when you say you love them.

There was no religion in the family and my parents were extremely liberal.

This article reminded me of a conversation I recently had with a former Wall Street analyst, or was he an associate. I suppose it doesn't matter. I could use the catchall VP. Yes, VP should be safe, they're all VPs. I was ranting on about the subject of bonuses and what a sweet deal this group had, bonsuses come what may. And as expected the attempt to defend such greed was soon on display. "You know I had to travel over 200,000 miles a year to do my job. Away from home, blah blah blah," he said. I said well yes, that is difficult, but then airline pilots probably fly more than that and they make nowhere near what you were making. It was a good comeback, but now I wish I used flight attendants instead.