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Going to the bank is always fun. The opening hours are so convenient, the uniforms are always very stylish and the fluorescent lighting is guaranteed to make your skin look just peachy.
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Schizophrenic Celebrations
Date: Tue, 05/21/2013 - 10:30
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” Voltaire Oh, how I detest these ceremonies of remembrances of glorious victories and the continued glorification of past wars and conflicts! -
Facebooking: The Facts
Date: Sat, 05/18/2013 - 08:21
I like Facebook. I never thought I would and I avoided it assiduously for many years. In fact I was fairly vocal about my antipathy towards it (Gentle reader, I know it is hard to imagine me expressing a strong opinion, but I did…). But then I started to use it and I... -
Who's Next?
Date: Tue, 05/07/2013 - 10:30
“The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.” - William Hazlitt Do you remember them? -
My Left Boot
Date: Fri, 05/03/2013 - 07:32
My left foot is bigger than my right. It is quite common for people to have one foot, hand, ear, boob bigger than the other, but mine is a lot bigger. Freakishly so. Both my feet are clown-sized anyway, which is why I never ever, ever, ever, EVER wear flat shoes. Even... -
May Day
Date: Tue, 04/30/2013 - 16:07
Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18 The history of May 1 as a workers’ holiday is intimately tied to the generations-long movement for the eight-hour day, to immigrant workers, to police brutality and repression of the labour movement, and to... -
The One and Only
Date: Tue, 04/23/2013 - 10:30
“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.” - Friedrich Nietzsche “You have three quarters of an hour, because at five o’clock I will issue a press release. You have either... -
The lucky charm Tokay
Date: Sat, 04/20/2013 - 10:30
Tokay Geckos originate from India, Southern China and Southeast Asia and have also been introduced to Hawaii and Florida via the pet trade. Being among the largest gecko species they are beautiful, intelligent, and often misunderstood reptiles that are fairly easy to... -
Welcome to the New Cold War!
Date: Tue, 04/16/2013 - 10:30
“Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.” - Dean Acheson There is no doubt that the structural changes in the world over the past two decades have been profound. These include not only the collapse of the... -
Are we all deficit hawks now?
Date: Tue, 04/09/2013 - 10:30
“To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.” - Mary Pettibone Poole An odd thing, though not the oddest, to come out of the reigning credit crises is the sudden appearance of deficit hawks, the vast majority of which are... -
The veiled Yemeni warrior
Date: Tue, 04/02/2013 - 11:00
The Veiled or Yemen Chameleon originates from Southwestern Saudi Arabia and western Yemen (also introduced into Florida and Hawaii).
