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...

I have been slack...in so many ways. Posting, responding to comments...sorry...and it's not just because I am practicing for the new law...

Anyone who has been on these flights should get checked for TB.. - Michael Moore's new film Sicko tackles the health industry... - ...

Been a bit out of the loop lately, but hey we made international news today... We are one of the countries arming the criminal regime of Su...

Holy, Holy Since we are hurtling to yet another barbaric stage of human conflict... History is a good teacher, who is a good pupil?

All flights out of Dubai Airport have been grounded indefinitely... So far due to a Bangladesh bound plane having an incident that injured 1...

Some articles about the first Arabic production to be staged at the Royal Shakespeare Company... By a Kwti theater company with a pan-Arab c...

Today there is only a poem ...

Sulayman Al-Bassam is in Stratford, the birthplace of Shakespeare to put on an Arabic production of Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Com...

Sore, sore throat...maybe from screaming over the music at a wedding... or from being too cold because I said no to fur...and will keep sayi...

snocone tagged me...supposed to grab the closest book, look at page 123 and write down the 5th sentence and the following couple of sentenc...

A tale of two serial killers: One has molested and killed over 30 children in 2 weeks the other kills 5 sex workers in 10 days- which stor...

Another Russian is poisoned .... radiation is found in 12 sites linked to the poisoning of Litvinenko... it's World AIDS day ...and it...

wow it was kinda hot this morning, and now i need gloves to type...great great stuff to be confused by the weather... Where is that thing on...

There is a contest to name a new batch of 7 wonders ...anyone want to nominate this deal with the devil-maker?... Then Lonely Planet sugge...

Today there is Keith Olbermann ...as there should be everyday But also there is Iran mad at Google And there is of course more Salon love fo...