Sad news that former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated. She was an icon of what women can do, especially Muslim women. RIP also then Pakistani democracy.
Archive of entries posted on December 2007
When we inherit the earth…
We will no longer have the problem of inequality. Remember the case a few weeks ago about the woman in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 200 lashes for being with a man to whom she was not related? I wrote about my disgust for this and for Saudi Arabia in general. I’ve just read an excellent [...]
And woman shall inherit the earth
Give us another hundred thousand years or so and woman will be ruler and supreme being of the world. Hoo ha!
Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford University and author of the book Adam’s Curse, is convinced that men will die out as the Y chromosome withers. He has calculated that, at the current [...]
You learn something new every day
I’ve just discovered, thanks to a colleague familiar with Catalan/Spanish culture, that during the festive season Spanish families put an additional character into their nativity scenes: the pooper! If you don’t believe me, see the Wikipedia article here. There’s also a picture below. In addition to this, the other picture below is of a caga tio, [...]
Huck cartoon
Following from today’s first post, a well-timed cartoon
Finally, a post
There are a couple of things plaguing me at the moment about two potential Republican nominees: Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney.
As loyal readers will know I detest Mike Huckabee for several reasons, number one being his cutting of higher education funding for high school students in Arkansas. Number two on my list of Huck pet [...]
I fear, I’m at a loss for words
I am afraid, my dear readers, that I am slightly out of the loop at the moment or, perhaps, slightly bored with current affairs as I have nothing to say of late. I was home all last week recovering from an operation and, yet, found no time to write anything on my blog.
The only interesting [...]