A friend of mine died suddenly last weekend. She was a confidant and supported me through challenging and difficult times. She had wisdom tempered by great humour; her smile was never a ’sticker, one that was applied for the moment or superficial. Her smile, every time she smiled, held something deeper… hers was a ‘lived-in’ [...]
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Celebrate what we have 2, looking for comfort in ones own words
Posted in Opinion, Reflection, tagged appreciation, bereavement, legacy, life, longing, loss, memories on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Celebrate what we have – for what we don’t have, we can’t know
Posted in Opinion, Reflection, tagged appreciation, bereavement, legacy, life, longing, loss, memories, Michael Jackson on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ones life is a strange thing; it is experienced through shared culture and by this, many people, whether they know it or not, become intrinsic to ones life.
When someone who is near to us (personally, emotionally, culturally) dies, there is physical sensation in response to that news. The emotion of what this person meant to [...]
Nuremburg is overturned when the ends justify the means
Posted in Opinion, Politics, Reflection, tagged George Bush, Nuremberg, Obama, the ends justify the means, torture, United States, war on terror on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Obama says that he will not prosecute people who practised the actual hands-on torture (enhanced interogation techniques), arguing that those people were carrying out orders and committing acts that they were lead to believed were legal… They were ordered to do something they were told was legal at that time by their county’s powers that [...]
Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, torture, misrepresentation, and Bill Clinton was impeached for WHAT?
Posted in Opinion, Politics, Reflection, tagged Abu Ghraib, coalition of the willing, George Bush, Guantanamo Bay, Obama, rule of law, torture, United States, war on terror on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the US another report has been released dealing with an issue from the Bush administration. In this case, a report about the treatment of detainees in the so called war on terror, at places including Guantanamo Bay Cuba and Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
I will not yet make comment on this report or the [...]
Obama not looking back, like a hit-and-run driver
Posted in Opinion, Politics, Reflection, tagged Bush torture memos, coalition of the willing, George Bush, Obama, rule of law, torture, United States, war on terror on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Obama administration has just released memoranda from the Bush administation that detail techniques of enhanced interrogation imposed on prisoners of the war on terror, many of which are recognised as torture. On the surface (in my unqualified opinion) these memos could form the basis of either war crimes charges, or even simply charges within [...]
Once again the internet lets the world share a moment of pure magic
Posted in Opinion, tagged Britain's Got Talent, internet, judgmentalism, surprise, Susan Boyle, the human voice, you tube on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The object lesson here is – Never judge a book by its cover.
There are times when some people (with their own agenda) will point to the internet and highlight something that may be dangerous, unsavoury, or just plain stupid or hateful; but then there are times when the internet allows the world to share wonderful [...]
Religion is not natural… I think that’s where the argument leads
Posted in Opinion, Politics, Religion, Social comment, gay, tagged animal behaviour, animals, homosexuality, natural, sexuality on July 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have read an article or two suggesting that homosexuality does exist not in the natural world, and is therefore not natural. While some animals engage in homosexual behaviour, so the argument goes, animals are not homosexual, therefore homosexuality (as we understand it) is not natural, is solely a human phenomenon, and is rightly subject [...]
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