Skip to content

{ Monthly Archives } December 2002

A terrorist by any other name

Syrian President Bashir Assad, rejecting criticism of Syria allowing Hamas and the Islamic Jihad to operate offices in Syria: “Of course we don’t have, in Syria, organisations supporting terrorism. We have press officers.” A recent press release from the Jihad: four killed and three wounded during their Sabbath evening meal.

All you need is credit

I have often thought it ironical that Paul McCartney and I happen to share our birthday. Everyone in the world is either a Lennonite or a McCartneyite, and I am a fanatical Lennonite. Recently Paul has sunk to new depths by crediting Lennon-McCartney songs to “Paul McCartney and John Lennon”. Somehow this reminds me of […]

RSS now available

This blog now has an RSS version Update: see the sidebar for the new location

One in a million

The wise men of Chelm were discussing whether one would be better off to have been born or never to have been born. After seven days and seven nights they came to their conclusion: one would be better off never to have been born, but who is that lucky? Maybe one in a million. Here […]