I’m not going to put all Ten from the Times’ list, but I am going to quote one of my favorites, number 9: Duke University officials were caught off guard in August when, an hour before a football game kickoff, two men parachuted into the stadium and landed at the 35-yard line with a ball.… Read More Top Ten Awkward Moments of 2008
Number 2? Seriously? Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin impression only made it to number 2? I’m going to sulk now. 2. Tina Plays Palin Tina Fey must have pinched herself when John McCain selected Sarah Palin to be his vice-presidential running mate, and not just because the resemblance between the two is so striking it spawned… Read More Top Ten Late Night Gags
It’s that time of the year again! What made it in 2008! While Sahar’s blog has been doing quite well, it hasn’t *quite* made it to the Top Ten Blogs of 2008 (it’s up to you lovely WONDERFUL readers to help me make it so for 2009!). I have looked for a lot of Top… Read More 2008 in (almost) all its glory
I remember reading, a long time ago, an article about Toyota’s new car, the IQ. I couldn’t help myself: I immediately saw it as a declaration of war on the Smart Car. The subsequent visual of an arm-wrestling match (or the car equivalent of an arm) between a Smart Car and a Toyota IQ still… Read More If your IQ is high, does that make you Smart? Not according to Toyota!
The best part about blogging is that you don’t have to be a journalist or an author with an officially recognised website. You can be mister or miss anyone, have an opinion and post it on your own blog. While there are many blogs out there that are onlines diaries, many others that are ramblings… Read More The power of blogging when it is well used: A fellow blogger’s response to an AP article
I love humour. It’s such a great way to highlight some of the nonsense that floats around a little too heavily in our world today. I recently found a really funny take on Climate Change I’d encourage you to check out, here and here. Enjoy!
Things aren’t going so well in Guinea. The long-time president, Lansana Conté, passed away last Monday. While he had held the country pretty stable, quite a feat considering the instability of some of its neighboring countries, he also didn’t allow a country rich in natural resources achieve it’s full potential; corruption was rampant and not… Read More BBC: Guinea’s musicians echo decline
I once heard someone say: “Ah, ‘X-mas’: X marks the spot where Christ was taking out of Christmas”. How that (sadly) rings true. His Holiness Jesus Christ has taken an unfortunate back seat to the decorations, the presents and the old man in a red suit climbing down chimneys (seriously, doesn’t anyone else see how… Read More X marks the spot
HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) — Zimbabwean police are in contempt of court for failing to follow a judge’s order to release jailed members of the opposition, attorneys for the activists said. Police, however, maintain the 32 people who oppose President Robert Mugabe will remain in custody pending the outcome of a government appeal to the Supreme… Read More CNN: Jailed Zimbabwe activists caught in legal battle
Zimbabwe’s children ‘wasting away’ – aid group HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) — Some of Zimbabwe’s children are “wasting away” as political turmoil and economic crisis have caused a severe food shortage, according to a report from Save the Children. The number of acute child malnutrition cases has risen by almost two-thirds in the past year, the… Read More Zimbabwe: Wasting an entire generation?
