On Leave

I hope it's the frenzy of the dying that has made the religious right, and all the people duped and terrified by them, ratchet up the fo...

Interesting

A friend described him as a 'national treasure'... I might have to agree.

Donald Macintyre says we should be '.. very Afraid ' of the Israeli elections... One candidate plants a tree in occupied territory a...

This girl's photo is one I can't stop coming back to... A sense of guilt and shame, at the world community which has fiddled as Gaz...

A very dear friend is writing an excellent poem/song, to deal with the frustration and horror at what is happening in Gaza... and to hopeful...

It is with no small irony, after watching a film like Taxi to the Dark Side , that this should be the first thing on a loop all over the n...

Can't get enough of this , so I thought I'd share... Greenland, the big bear of the north, is rattling in its chains .. I must visit...

I am winning the battle against cat scratch fever, or maybe that is the hopeful delirium that comes at the end... The cat and I have worryin...

If you are anything like me (and believe me these days I would recommend anything but) then your heart races a little faster every time you ...

There must be some love stories left in the world after all... And then there are those loves you wish could be explained... And still ot...

As if I needed another reason to recoil at having to touch elevator buttons: radioactive scrap from India was used to make buttons for Otis ...

Since misery loves company, the planet and the economy in meltdown should offer some sort of comfort to my dwindling sanity... but planet yo...

That icy rush you feel is just brain freeze from the new republican VP. We can look forward to hearing more frozen-in-time comments that wil...

In our current days of darkness and superstitions... A little history goes a long way. Science already known BCE/BC: 1- 500BCE/BC : Pythago...

Nuclear waste containers likely to fail, warns 'devastating' report August 2008 Power madness : With spiralling costs, leaky reactor...

Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook? And 'meet your meat' Forget about the ad for PETA at the end, that's not...

Kuwait plans to flex its muscles on web offenders... playground rules... This is the week of explosions, what is going on? Bangalore , Gaza...

When did it become ok for a magazine to edit (by inserting more errors) and dumb down your articles without letting you know? I have a growi...

My slightly unsteady hand just put my voting card and every document anyone could possibly ask me for into my overstuffed bag...ready for my...

Who no longer trusts the weather here? I find myself having to chaperone open windows... Dust pneumonia , you haunt me. === The second most ...

الصقر: «التصويت والفرز» إلكترونياً.. أفضل Hmm.. Really hope it's not these machines though...or these ...or these ...or these ...or the...

"Kurzweil is 60, but he intends to be no more than 40 when the singularity arrives." hmm... read on. ----------------------- Manga...

I can barely think through these new allergies I have developed in this country but here are some things for you to look at that might give ...

The petty parliament is finished, here's to the coming scramble. Are we going to be given the chance to hope, or just some more of the s...

Gideon Levy of the Israeli Paper Ha'aretz writes: " Two days earlier Israel killed more Palestinians than have been killed by all t...

3:15 pm AUK has been evacuated after a bomb threat... Or some kind of threat that is still not clear. Check on your family and friends. The ...

I need to recharge the fuel that is sapped by the depression of being dunked daily in the vat of ignorance and regressive philosophies of th...

I'm stuffed with rice krispie treats and jalapeno peppers and some organic ketchup... I realise, only faintly, that it might sound sicke...

The clouds today wrapped round the blue sky like a belt, a line of white all around the horizon... If you tilt yourself upside down it would...

It's late. I'm tired... but my eyes are too swollen to shut so you are going to be lucky enough to get a post after all this time. ...

When will the price be too high? . When will " democracies " believe in everyone's rights? . Will this Exodus be remembered...

But this scares the bejeeeezuz out of me...

Been having "stinging eyes and sore throats and headaches" ? You are going to love reading this .. And by love, I of course mean t...

I was really missing this country...on my month of hotel hopping and racist encounters with certain white folk... but of course the joy at b...

What do Kuwait, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast have in common? Yup their embassy staff in the UK commit assault, because they can... German em...