They say that life is what you make it. As if that’s going to make you feel better. I say that only me, myself, I, can screw things up for myself, especially if things are going pretty swimmingly. The sun is shining in a beautiful cerulean sky, the birds are twittering to the rhythm of my favourite melody and I’ve even broken into a smile. So now’s the perfect time to think up a scheme that will ruin all that. Continue reading
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Hamas has chutzpah
Who but Hamas would burn the American flag, call America “The Great Satan”, torch effigies of President Bush and yet have the chutzpah to ask the U.S to help them? Continue reading
Fifteen minutes of fame is too long.
When Andy Warhol said in the Sixties “In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” I didn’t get it then and I still don’t get it. It was a throw-away line by an overrated “artist” who enjoyed saying and doing stupid things. There was one thing, however, that he wasn’t stupid at Continue reading
Gillian Gibbons, anarchist.
Looks like my vacation in the Sudan is on again. For a few days I was apprehensive about visiting the place but when Gillian Gibbons assured the world that the Sudan was truly a lovely spot after all, then I said, why not? Continue reading
The Name Game
When feminism came on the scene in the Nineteen Sixties (I am intentionally not referring to the suffragette movement of the preceding century) women began to question their role in marriage, society, work situations etc. A society can only benefit from people questioning certain aspects of it. Nothing is written in stone, after all, in the non-Muslim world, that is. Continue reading
Say no to fruit juice!
Whenever I visit a mall in Australia I despair at the long queues in front of the fruit juice vendors. I feel like going up to the teenagers in the queues and shaking them. Continue reading
Tattoos, piercings, brandings etc.
My education is an ongoing thing but this latest bit of information has almost, but not quite, left me speechless. Continue reading
The ugly face of competitions.
Anyone who thinks that beauty pageants have anything to do with beauty are seriously kidding themselves. It’s all about competition and what should be a celebration of beauty brings out the basest in human nature. Continue reading
What’s in a name?
While shopping today I met a very interesting man. He was in his thirties and had just opened a shop. I won’t say where in order to protect his identity. Continue reading
Annapolis Talks. Talk to the hand
As I was walking up the stair I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. I wish that man would go away. Guess who that man is… Continue reading
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