The most important issue about the latest Bin Laden tape has been skirted over and the world at large is just lucky to have such a prescient mind as mine at the ready to catch it: who does Osama Bin Laden's beard- dye and trim job? It is so wonderfully stylish.
Continue reading this entry ...
It's been demonstrated all over the world but the best recent example of why local government is important is in comparing Switzerland and the USA when it comes to that 'ol favourite, guns.
Continue reading this entry ...
The Vodacom Challenge invites Tottenham back this year after 4 years absent. The original idea had been to bring out a new team but Tottenham had the enthusiasm to visit the Dark Continent again. Thankfully we have the lights on these days.
Continue reading this entry ...
Hazel the chimp, in Austria, saved from vivisection and placed in a now bankrupt Zoo, is looking to be adopted by a "legal guardian" and achieve some of the basic rights as humans*. Part of the argument for is based on the science of DNA.
Continue reading this entry ...
Maybe 0.5% of humans give a crap about endangered Bengal Tigers. Perhaps a few more know what a greenhouse gas is. Maybe, at a push, 2% of humans on the planet know about global warming and care. The fact is that in the large scale of things all of this doesn't matter.
Continue reading this entry ...
This was inspired by a post of a youtube video on celluloid blonde.# Thanks Max. In some of my writing recently I have been exploring free will.
Continue reading this entry ...
The plethora of self-help books for the misguided that plague the shelves of my otherwise rather pleasant, proficient and airy local book store have driven me to provide some opposition to these "celebrations of the mentally incapable, for the benefit of the psychologically feebl …
Continue reading this entry ...
originally published on my weblog @ midnightjester.wordpress.com It is in 4 parts: 1. THE MIRACLE COUNTRY 2. The ANC 3. The opposition parties 4. The people 1. THE MIRACLE COUNTRY
Continue reading this entry ...
Whereas the team has seen a turnaround in recent weeks and more positive tactics there is still plenty wrong with the team, open to exploitation.
Continue reading this entry ...
Ideas for a more representative political process.
Continue reading this entry ...
Regional politics has no relevance any more.
Continue reading this entry ...
I wish, just once, a damn country doing a "military intervention" would do it right so we could see if it could work. Before the Iraq war I was a supporter of the idea as I support the idea of spreading democracy.
Continue reading this entry ...
The man, Kenneth Lay, Former Head of Enron and worth (prosecuters believed) around 43 billion dollars which he screwed out of his employees, clients and the world in general, at the time facing the rest of his life in jail, dies while on holiday in a small community in Colorado.
Continue reading this entry ...
It's quite a thing, watching the South African political landscape. South Africans have a habit of taking things at face value but we have a government where reading between the lines is a must.
Continue reading this entry ...
The great bottled liquid that is called alcohol and it's sister "bad behaviour" have kept me happily, blissfully unaware of anything in the world around me usually found under the tick-boxes "serious" and "important" this week.
Continue reading this entry ...
midnightjester is a member of the following groups: