“From ghoulies and ghosties, and long leggedy beasties, good Lord deliver us.”
Some claim the old saying was Scottish, others it was Cornish—but who cares? Halloween is gaining ground as an annual festival. In Latin America there is a celebration of the Day of the Dead. In the Catholic tradition the festival is of All Saints [...]
Pity the Poor Ghosts
March 11th, 2010Tweeting Abortion
March 10th, 2010Nobody made her do it. But, following in the footsteps of Ms. Penelope Trunk, who had tweeted the news of her miscarriage during a 2009 business conference, Ms. Angie Jackson (27) recently took self-publicity a step further. She swallowed an RU-486 abortion pill and then created a YouTube video and a series of blow-by-blow messages [...]
Read MoreOlympic Moments
March 2nd, 2010One of the biggest matches in the 2010 Winter Olympics was fought on the last day of the games. It was a classic ice hockey encounter between the Canadian team and Team USA. Canada won the gold medal, 3:2, with a goal scored by Sidney Crosby, with only 24.4 seconds left [...]
Read MoreThe 12-step program and Buddhism
February 24th, 2010The volume of trading on the New York Stock Exchange dropped to one-sixth of its usual rate while the golfer Tiger Woods was holding his press event the other day. It appears that his treatment for sexual addiction is based on the well-trodden path of the 12-step program—the staple diet of recovering alcoholics.
In addition to [...]
Revenge
March 11th, 2010A week ago, a Taliban fighter detonated a car bomb near a police checkpoint in Kabul. Ten died, among them two members of the United Nations delegation. They were not engaged in military operations. Both the men were Afghans, as was their assailant. Over fifty Afghans were injured in the blast. The UN expressed its [...]
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