Blogs
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Dazzlingly good morals
This island deserves more recognition for upholding strong morals. Kudos to the magazine distributors of Dazed and Confused (not to be confused with Hazel's Confusing confessions) who banned the latest issue of this profoundly profane bit of...
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Freedom to discriminate?
Cyber-space is full of pseudo philosophers and fake do-gooders who seem to have enough leisure time that they can spend their days passing judgement on lifestyles that don't coincide with theirs. Such as on those who are in a same-sex...
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Rekindling the debate … perhaps
I was not planning to return to the disappointingly sad statement released by the Cana Movement as a follow up to the pastoral letter of our Bishops on IVF. I changed plans when I noticed that the two main points I mentioned in my original blog -...
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It’s the real thing
Franco Debono and his galloping pony have been upstaged. No it wasn’t JPO’s marriage vows or the Olympics that did it. Even the Olympian efforts of King Boris, Mayor of London , don’t compare to our local farce. The Marsaxlokk debacle has now even...
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Déjà vu
In March 2011, more than 15 months ago, a man was caught on video viciously beating up a woman in the streets of St. Julians. The mobile video which was taken by a foreign student at about 2.30 a.m showed a drunken man beating up his girlfriend. He...
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A QUICK LESSON
I'm feeling generous this evening, perhaps as a result of a rather good meal, so I'll give you a quick lesson. Let's start from a premise, as all good pedagogues are wont to do. Those marginally human thugs whose revolting image graced The Times...
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Neanderthals, all
The onslaught of memes was to be expected, of course. After all, it's not everyday that we get to see honest-to-goodness fisticuffs that seem to come straight out of some redneck movie. I'm talking about the Marsaxlokk fight, the video of which...
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Setting free the bunnies
Is it just me who's intrigued by some law reports? Recently someone was arraigned and convicted of stealing 20 rabbits. After rapping the bunny thief, the magistrate commended him for cooperating with the police Some inane thoughts gripped me while...
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HEAR HEAR
Sitting on a Salzburg square of a Sunday lunchtime lends a certain perspective to things. Pipsqueak politicians who don't have the class to rise above laddish polo-shirts and chunky watches, who use their personal clout like a club simply because...
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The Cana statement: disappointing and sad
A few minutes after the Cana Movement – or whoever – released its press release about IVF a very good friend of mine sent me an email to tell me how hurt he was by the statement. He is just older than me. He is a very good Catholic who is still very...
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ACADEMICS
What is it about a certain type of politician? The one's about whom I'm talking, even if by typing, are the ones for whom their paper qualifications are supremely important, the ones who seem not to grasp that it is by their deeds today that we...
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Bigotry and insensitivity
Let's get to the hot potato of the day. No it's not Franco Debono—can he enter the history books please? Not as in "historical" but forgotten as in a bad dream? The hot potato is IVF. Don't worry I don't intend delving into the mechanics or...
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He's king of the world
My brother David suffers from a learning and intellectual disability. To put it simply, he's thirty years old with the mental age of a six year old. Despite his condition, he is a brilliant swimmer; he can hold his breath for more than a minute,...
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Thank you Mrs Brignone
The interview in The Times and timesofmalta.com with Josianne Brignone the widow of Charles who was killed by a boat propeller on Sunday is inspiring and uplifting. It is one of the best reads our papers gave us for quite some time. The context, the...
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Compassion: more important than church flexibility
I realise that you’re probably all getting tired of hearing about IVF. However, given the right pig’s ear that is being made of the whole issue (quelle surprise), it is impossible to pretend that all is fine. First we had justice minister Chris Said...
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I am Brad Pitt’s double
That the PN is tired and needs a short rest might be more than obvious. We all feel it and see it. They sound more like a cackling of cock-fighting cliques all out to out-pique their own sort. Labour is our hope. Yes it is. For sure. Definitely. I...
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LETTING THEM HANG
Labour’s Lil’Elves, aided and abetted by the self-satisfied members of their intelligentsia (or so they must see themselves, why else would they make such smug comments?) had a bit of a field day with the Nationalists’ re-jigging of the Thatcher-era...
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Some other beautiful things in life
In my blog of July 8, I discussed some beautiful and some not so beautiful things in life. I would like today share some thoughts and anecdotes about another very beautiful dimension of out earthly existence. The torpor induced by the close to...
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Pathetically Sad Arguments
The worst kind of let downs are the ones you walk straight into. They’re the ones your better judgement warns you about but you just don’t listen. And this is exactly what I did with the new IVF Bill. I had convinced myself that the PN – the...
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Global warning
Some days ago we had one of those torrid days when the heat was really on and we all sweltered. A young friend of mine told me he couldn’t go to work. I thought he might be ill but no, the office, he pointed out, lacked proper air-conditioning so he...
