It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Monday, 7 April 2008
Friday, 21 March 2008
another inconvenient truth
When Japan sends out a fleet to shoot whales, Australia is hugely outspoken and moves into action by helping fund and publicly support the anti-whaling actions of the Sea Shepherd's Steve Irwin. But when China sends in its troops to shoot Tibetan monks, Australia says little and does nothing. What a disappointment.
Sunday, 9 March 2008
Friday, 29 February 2008
ah, the irony
A US officer with the 101st Airborne Division learns Arabic at a combat outpost in the northern Iraqi town of Baiji, near the oil city of Kirkuk.
view from the outside in
Two aliens are flying by our planet. One alien looks down and says, "It seems that the dominant life force here has been able to figure out satellite weapon technologies."
The other alien asks, "Do you mean to say there is intelligent life on this planet?"
"It does not appear to be so", the first replies. "They have it aimed at themselves!"
Sunday, 24 February 2008
Sunday, 17 February 2008
the 'power' of the media
One death is a tragedy.
One million deaths is a statistic.
[35,000 children die every day in 3rd world countries; UNESCO]
Saturday, 9 February 2008
Sunday, 27 January 2008
Saturday, 26 January 2008
Sunday, 30 December 2007
urban angel
angel: n 1. a messenger and servant of God, usually represented as a person with large wings and dressed in white clothes 2. a spirit that watches and guards one -see also "guardian angel" 3. a person especially a woman, who is very kind, good, beautiful etc.
Friday, 28 December 2007
it's all about US
When we hate someone,
it is because we hate some part of ourselves in their image.
[Herman Hesse]
Thursday, 27 December 2007
knowledge = a glass house
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
[Isaac Asimov]
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