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Thank God (hehehe) I don’t live in America
Micky and I chatted just the other day about how glad we are we’re not Americans. The topic came up after we’d each read a few blogs which detailed reactions from Americans to atheists doing various...
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How blogging can teach you things… or not
When I write a blog entry, I try my best to put in references to online articles, or to blog entries representative of something that came up widely in a Google search. It can be very time-consuming –...
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Journalasses
It’s easy, if you know how to play with words, to say something in such a way that you tell your reader what to think. I tried to explain how this works in this reply to GenX on my page about my...
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Dear Teacher. Don’t be a pig.
Childhood is, technically, an apprenticeship for adulthood. School, while it in reality falls woefully short of this ideal, should be an extension of the parents’ efforts to teach their children how to...
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We need to stop demanding compensation
Compensation for a wrong done to you is a tricky issue. When someone was careless and you now have to deal with debilitating consequences, of course the person who wronged you should be required to...
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Positive/negative balance
What people say to you has an impact. It influences every aspect of your life. Though some people are harmed by patterns established early on in life and gravitate towards bad messages about...
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Knowing your own power
I saw a very funny image this morning: For those of you who don’t know it, the picture is a poke at this book. Believers may find the sentiment expressed above harsh, but it’s a new spin on an old...
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What will you gain? *sigh*
At the entrance to our local supermarket, there are huge posters promoting the What will you gain? campaign from Kellogg’s Special K. The idea is not to focus on the numbers on the scale, instead...
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Another shooting?!
I was just checking an article on Bill Nye when a headline on the side of the page caught my eye: “Reports of deadly shootout near Empire State building”. The first thought going through my mind was:...
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Whose right answer?
This cartoon was on a friend’s Facebook today: This happened to me twice in high school. Once, in Afrikaans class, it was in connection with the poem Die Hardloper (The Runner) by Ernst van Heerden....
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Ha ha, you’re poor!
A good while ago my youngest forgot his house key when he went to school, and had to wait a while at our door for one of us to come home and unlock. Our house is right beside his school so the kids...
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Shredded Nerves at Pink & Gold
*** Please note – I didn’t go to the tri intending to take photos, so what I have here was taken with my phone. Which doesn’t, as you’ll see, boast a very good camera. My apologies for the poor quality...
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