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Yesterday, President Bush hosted the Mideast Peace Conference in Annapolis, Maryland. I watched in bemusement as the three principals gave opening remarks on the Israeli and Palestinian roadmap to peace. Because anyone could see, this was a classic case of the blind leading the blind. Three blind men on the roadmap Bush is a bona fide lame duck. He’s no… Read more.
The men are young, gorgeous and up for it. No wonder western women see a Third World holiday as a gateway to casual transactional sex. [Tanika Gupta, author of the (female) sex tourism play “Sugar Mammies”] After reading my commentary (and related articles) on the queen’s diamond anniversary in Friday’s edition of Caribbean Net News,… Read more.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is fighting an insurgency within his Anglican Church that makes the one President Bush is fighting in Iraq seem relatively mundane. In fact, here’s a little of what I wrote in a commentary on Williams’s internecine struggle a year ago: …the battle within the Anglican Church over the… Read more.
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With little thought, most of us would have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving Day that our turkey would become cold and dry by the time we finished gracing our food. But never mind all we take for granted. Instead, let us be thankful that, but for the grace of God, we’re not… Read more.
President George W. Bush continued a hallowed presidential tradition yesterday by pardoning two turkeys – named May and Flower – that were primed for Thanksgiving-Day slaughter. And, in so doing, he informed the White House Press Corps that VP Dick Cheney suggested that the pardoned turkeys should have been named “Lunch and Dinner”. But, with… Read more.
The Queen and Prince Philip celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary on Monday with a jubilant service at Westminster Abbey. The royal couple were married in this same cathedral on 20 November 1947. And I must say, they looked remarkably convincing as a (still) happily-married couple 60 years later…. Therefore, whatever one thinks of the dysfunction… Read more.
Generals are complaining that they do not have enough troops to execute their missions; volunteers are being forced to endure extended tours of duty; and recruitment is so anemic that the military is lowering its (physical and educational) standards for enlistment to fill its ranks – trying to make lean, mean fighting machines of 42-year-old… Read more.
Reports are that thousands of people were killed and millions more dislocated when Cyclone Sidr devastated Bangladesh last week. And relief agencies fear that thousands remain unaccounted for…. Rather puts the horrors of Hurricane Katrina and the California fires in perspective doesn’t it…? But since it’s not wise to question why, how or where Mother… Read more.
