Review

"Ok, let's see Jules...can you name one of the Great Civilisations of antiquity?" - I decided to keep it as open as possible...

"The Czech Republic!!" - Maybe I should review my approach...

Offense

Al-Shabaab is offended!  

After all, how could the media possibly allege that there was a woman among the mujahideen militants who attacked the Westgate shopping center in Nairobi and killed sixty-two people including children??

A spokesman for the Somalia-based terrorist group spluttered with rage: ”It’s a groundless lie that a female was among the mujahideen attackers. It is all about propaganda disseminated by western media outlets." 

Tissue? 

It just so happens to be that there is reason to believe that there was a low-ranking female primate amongst your chest beating lot.

Sorry...?!

Life in the Jungle

At the beginning of class this fall, when asked where they would like to go on holiday next year, 
a kid in L’s class called out “SYRIA!!” 

 Ah, yes, the jungle!! Not a bad idea.  And why not check out a few of the other places where silver backs roam free?    

'Tis Summer...

...and the livin' is easy....

Wishing you all well....

At some point during the last days of every year, I usually get a bit heavy hearted. My grandma used to tease me by saying that nothing is worse than a row of good days. With Christmas having been just absolute bliss this year, I think I am quite probably suffering from the Post Christmas Blues. Oh, well, it could be worse. After all, there is something to look forward to as well. Hurray Happy New Year !!!

Brilliant PR

To the old question of whether money can buy happiness, some handsomely wealthy Scotsman was heard to have answered: "Sure, if you give it away!" Ah, yes, keep it coming...I'll make you smile!

Kudos to a well-known misogynist Wenn die Frauenzimmer nur wüssten was sie könnten wenn sie wollten. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Smallprint

You can't get out of life alive.
(Les Brown)

Like I was saying...

"The social progress of a society can be measured by the social position of the female sex."
Marx

PS Boo!

Over the last days of October, human population on this planet has reached seven billion i.e.7,000,000,000 !! Cities in the ‘developing’ world are bursting out of their seams, with the urban poor living in squalid quarters feeding off the refuse from the more fortunate. Schopenhauer once compared the earth and humanity on it to a churning ball of iron with a cooled crust covered by a growing funghus - us. Boo!

Jules gets it

I have to make my life a good one, because I have only got this one.

When...

...there is a moment to see we seldom look.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Let Barack have a go, Georgie...

"Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried..."
Winston Churchill

This much we've learned

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
M. Twain

Zoe says...

“Sometimes when I have figured something out I am ready to start all over again like a white sheet of paper that life scribbles on.”

“Forget injuries never forget kindness.”
Confucius

Have you noticed...?

It takes some people a lifetime to get to know themselves, most need longer.

He must know what he's talking about...

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius