There is not much worse than an abusive father. I can’t help wondering if Tom’s dad used to beat him for jumping on the couch. I remember that my own dad used to tear into us about dinner manners and to this day my brother takes his shirt off before dinner and I eat with…
Month: April 2006
mexicans on the internet
i find the google zeitgeist site quite interesting. start clicking and see what your fellow world citizens are enthralled with. wow. is #9 really the love of custodians?Bernest Google Press Center: Zeitgeist Mexico – Popular Queries: February 2006 1. juegos 2. corazones 3. san valentin 4. smallville 5. lindsay lohan 6. tom welling 7. telcel…
The trip of a lifetime – psychedelic medical research
Psychedelics are being revisited as potential treatment for anxiety, PTSD, headaches, OCD, and other conditions. (I got a kick out of the comment that prescribers should first have to try the drugs themselves. Do people really think they haven’t??) Before 1960s’ Flower Power, LSD was a medical wonder drug – a supposed treatment for mental…
Award for Sierra Leone war novel
Maybe Charles Taylor can read this to pass the time in Pademba Road prison…. A novel about a child soldier in Sierra Leone has won the prestigious Orwell prize for political writing. Delia Jarrett-Macauley, a British writer whose parents are from Sierra Leone, was honoured for her novel, Moses, Citizen and Me. It is the…
Music Earns Black Hebrews Some Acceptance – Yahoo! News
Polygamous Black Vegan Jews for Israel. I am so there but I can’t sing…….BernestMusic Earns Black Hebrews Some Acceptance – Yahoo! News
Giant Methanol Cloud Discovered in Space
God this makes me want to have a drink. The Milkyway GalaxyAccording to the Australian online newssite ABC astonomers have spotted a cloud of alcohol in space that measures 463 billion kilometres across, a finding that could shed light on how giant stars are formed from primordial gas. The researchers led by Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith…
Kuwaiti women vote for first time
Polling is taking place in a Kuwaiti council by-election in which women are allowed to vote for the first time. Two women are also among eight candidates running for the seat in the Salmiya district, south of the capital. The 28,000 eligible voters, 60% of whom are women, are voting in segregated polling booths, a…
Bushmeat boom benefits Ghana's farmers
Grasscutters are really quite cute, as rodents go, and they are a very popular type of bushmeat in West Africa. “Bushmeat” may refer to just about any animal found while hunting, including monkeys. Bush hunting is being discouraged as animal populations are depleted. Farming grasscutters offers an environmentally sound and lucrative alternative. Teye Ocansey is…
Taylor pleads not guilty at trial
Well, it happened – Charles Taylor was arrested in Nigeria and sent to the UN Special Court in Sierra Leone. Echoing Saddam, he began by saying that he did not recognize the jurisdiction of the court. He eventually entered a “not guilty” plea. The trial may be moved to The Hague. It is acknowledged fact…