It is naive to believe that the Israeli politicians expected to stop attacks by  launching into this carnage.
This whole exercise has surely got to be a song and dance for domestic consumption. 
Even a child could predict that Hamas would benefit from this. 
Or if Israel's end game is more sinister, for Fatah to ride on Israeli tanks into Gaza, then ( Read more... )

People who live in boxes I have left behind to make and discover my own, make me uncomfortable.
They are beautiful men and women who smell of the earth.
But their particular fears and ambitions still resonate.
Their judgments still matter somewhere.

Guess we all seek references and moving the reference is less confusing than simply moving against the ( Read more... )

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Given that "Yes We Can" is a viral you've pbbly already seen this. If  not click through for the lyrics/speech. 

Experiment ( Read more... )

You've probably already heard about microloans. If not  then in a nutshell its a small loan to poor entrepreneurs who despite needing the loans most, face the toughest credit terms (interest rates of 3 digits are not unheard of). If you need one read up an introduction here.

So I was doing some research and found an organisation with some great ( Read more... )

I haven't played or even thought about scrabble since I was a teenager.
Last week I stumbled upon this neat documentary about the game's competitive avatar and promptly forgot about it afterwards.
Quite a coincidence that a friend, Christopher, decided to ask me for a game on facebook within a couple of days of that!

So I've spent part of today ( Read more... )

"Plot less. Accept more", said the master ( Read more... )

In broad strokes the cricket controversy: Here is a brown man accused of racially abusing a (technically) black man  in a white man's backyard ( Read more... )

I've had a lot of time on my hands this past month.
With my love life in the dumps and the holiday season in Dec, I had plenty of time to kill.

So I volunteered to help with the vipassana course halfway between here and Canada for a few days.
I would have liked to to take the course but it was full so as a consequence I find myself in the kitchen with ( Read more... )

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So I was  browsing youtube for music (which is a fantastic way to while away time) and I had a listen to Fast Car. I remember listening to that song as a kid. It was a jewel in my tiny collection of assorted  cassettes. I could never figure out the accent back then but I used to love that soothing riff that plays over and over until it burts into ( Read more... )