I'm sure I've ranted before about my scepticism over those figures about the massive decline in male fertility since [whenever], and when I see woezing over 'in the last 40 years', when I think it was over twenty years ago when I was still finishing up my thesis that I was seeing woezing over 'in the last 50 years' male fertility had plunged -
And ( Read more... )

After the delightful post-4th Street lunch get-together, I got back to the hotel, where I had my luggage stashed and an airport shuttle booked to pick up for my onward flight to Chicago -
And settled down with my tablet to check my messages -
And found that I had one to say that my flight this evening was cancelled for maintenance reasons, click ( Read more... )

Though will admit that some of the British versions are dear to my heart (o hai, Arnold Bennett) this was not quite that.
Anyway, this was one version of the one of the young(-ish) man with wider ambitions who finds himself in an unsympathetic provincial milieu, sitting next to me on the flight home.
(I had had some hope that the seat next to me ( Read more... )