All aboard the stupidity bus

I recently sat at a restaurant table with a young South African couple, who I do not know, and listened to the gentleman justify the failure of South Africa to give the Dali Lama a visa on the grounds that we could not afford to upset China.  He was deeply offended when I suggested that a similar attitude allowed the Nats to apply apartheid for 46 years and enabled Mr Hitler to dictate European policy and ultimately destroy a generation as well as exterminate millions of innocents.

A Spineless Shiver

There are times in your life that you meet inspiring people and other times when you simply meet interesting people.  Over the last month I have been lucky enough to do both and in all situations I was left with fresh impressions of people I had formed opinions of without any personal contact.

15 Minutes of Gory

I am really not sure whether I am in a recession, repression, remission or depression!  There is so much to think about and worry about, things are shrinking and sliding and that’s just the effects of the market!  When will normality return, when can I fret about my waistline and lack of a 12 pack and not have to think about global issues such as the nuclear war ships and wind power.  (By the way 6 packs are for children, us over 40’s have 12, 24 and 36 packs!)

As time goes by

By the time you read this you may already have read about the dismissal of John Thain from Bank of America (who took over Thain’s firm Merrill Lynch) and how he spent approximately R15,000.000 on having his office renovated, bless him.  Yet another “Master of the Universe” brought down to size by the world’s biggest economic reality check since WWII.  By the time you read this Israel will be out of Gaza, having no doubt utilized that three week vacuum period prior to a new presidency to make Palestinians punch drunk and or just homeless.  By the time you read this the ANC will have no doubt destroyed the credibility of our current President to prepare the way for another, a man in whom I really struggle to find any endearing features.  By the time you read this line “again” you may have lost interest and turned the page, but I hope not.  My point is simply that at certain times in our lives things change very quickly and time can seemingly fly by!

Self Hate Speak

Browsing through a local music store I came to the shelf that we all avoid being seen at, the bargain specials!   You know the stuff, Max Bygraves greatest “Hit” (Singular) Abba “Songs from a Swedish Sauna”, or the more recent one thousand shocking Afrikaner pop star compilations that confound belief that any of it was produced after the 1980’s!