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Consider This: February 2008
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Musings on modern life. Wednesday, 27 February 2008. Self-serving politicians have an amazing capacity to endure, yet they occasionally cross the line and shoot themselves in the foot. Such, I suspect, is the case with the current MEPs expenses scandal where the European Parliament's already shoddy reputation in national capitals has been further tarnished by its refusal to publish the report. This is the worst case of outright hypocrisy and shamelessness I have seen for some years from the peoples' repr...
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Consider This: August 2007
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Musings on modern life. Friday, 31 August 2007. No, I don't want to talk about weight loss, size zeros, or encouraging anorexia, but the fact that inspiration has been pretty thin on the ground recently. For how long, I wonder, will the impetus for further integration continue to be driven by developments in the outside world instead of idealism from within? Sunday, 12 August 2007. So asked Razorlight. As do millions of singletons as they opt for individualism over responsibility and the sheer interf...
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Consider This: December 2007
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Musings on modern life. Tuesday, 18 December 2007. Putting the Pieces Together. Lebanon is more than a country - it is a message.' So said the Pope when he visited Beirut in 1997, as the country was picking up the pieces of civil war and its way towards peaceful coexistence. ' A country of many religious faiths, Lebanon has shown that these different faiths can live together in peace, brotherhood and cooperation.'. Prior to this, my first trip to Lebanon, I would have been equally sceptical . Constan...
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Consider This: May 2008
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Musings on modern life. Wednesday, 21 May 2008. Stop me from generalising but, meet the average Scot, and you'll marvel at the sheer dourness that encircles them as they bewail their misery and misfortune. Even when nothing that bad has actually happened, there's normally an arsenal of enemies awaiting character assassination, or an assortment of seemingly miserable anecdotes, to regail onlookers with over a pint or two on a Friday evening. I grew up with that approach to life, and it's one I both unders...
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We have a Dog! Then, somehow I told the volunteer, “We’d like to fill out an application for her.” After filling out an application and the Humane Society verifying that indeed yes our apartment complex does allow dogs (max. 2, must be under 50 lbs.) we walked out with Lego. 3 days later we returned to finalize her adoption and now she is ours. I’ll be Home Soon. And if that doesn’t work we’ll call a local dog behaviorist. Cesar Millan’s Dog Whisperer,. To reading books like Tamar Geller’s. And she goes ...
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Consider This: June 2008
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Musings on modern life. Thursday, 5 June 2008. I won't be blogging for a while as I get my thoughts and life together. I may even learn how to operate wordpress to move on from Blogger. Now that would be exciting. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt". Liberal politico by day, bar philosopher by night. I write for a living, but never under my own name. This blog is my outlet and escape. View my complete profile.
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Consider This: June 2007
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Musings on modern life. Thursday, 28 June 2007. Call it synchronicity or coincidence but I have a theory about books. They come to you at the right time. Sometimes a volume can lie on my shelf, forgotten or neglected, for years on end. Then, when I finally get round to reading it, I realise that if I had opened it even a month beforehand I could not have understood its message with the same profundity. Anyway, in the course of my reflections, I stumbled across a book called. What I got was very different.
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Consider This: Scots Wha Hae
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Musings on modern life. Wednesday, 21 May 2008. Stop me from generalising but, meet the average Scot, and you'll marvel at the sheer dourness that encircles them as they bewail their misery and misfortune. Even when nothing that bad has actually happened, there's normally an arsenal of enemies awaiting character assassination, or an assortment of seemingly miserable anecdotes, to regail onlookers with over a pint or two on a Friday evening. I grew up with that approach to life, and it's one I both unders...
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Consider This: January 2008
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Musings on modern life. Friday, 18 January 2008. Sarko Sows Intercultural Confusion. I was amused to learn from the BBC that the Indian establishment has been thrown into protocol confusion. Intercultural dialogue in action. Wednesday, 16 January 2008. Us: "We are delighted to welcome you here to the European Parliament. Intercultural Dialogue is very important". Them: "We are delighted to come to the European Parliament. Intercultural Dialogue is very important". OK, I'm paraphrasing here, the Mufti act...