Blogs
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Get Over It!
At the moment, London buses are going around sporting an advert with the words ‘Some people are gay. Get Over It.’ The people behind this campaign are lobbying for gay marriage and more equal rights, but as liberating as this is, in the same...
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BEST OF BEST FRIENDS AGAIN?
"After all, Government signed ACTA behind the people's backs", or words to that effect, was a comment made by Victor Laiviera below the story about Joseph Muscat's shameful cuddling with the North Korean Ambassador. That, friends, is how Labour's...
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Let's tank the thick thinkers
Are think-tanks just another word for a collection of ranters and grumblers? The Today Public Policy Institute one seems to be anyway. They rant away and sound eerily like one of us bloggers with nothing better to do. OK so maybe think-tanks are...
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A CORNUCOPIA
I was wondering whether it wasn’t about time to send in another blog and lo and behold, a surfeit of riches presented itself. To start with, allow me to indulge in a personal rant: who was the intellectually challenged individual who came up with...
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IVF, mutual respect and dialogue
A successfully sat for, but energy draining, PhD viva together with the Holy Week celebrations and a three day break kept me from so far commenting on the debate sparked by the homily Bishop Mario Grech delivered on the occasion of the feast of Our...
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Hunters, quit the whining
Apparently it's fine for common mortals to queue at the post office to pick up votes and to waste hours at sundry government departments to carry out necessities. It is not fine, however, for the privileged caste in Malta – ie the hunters – to use...
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Arriva Saves The Day
If you're one of those who drag their behind to the gym six times a week, please stop reading now. If you can run up a hill singing, or run the marathon backwards this won't impress you either, and I won't stand the idea of your eyes rolling into...
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A dictionary of sorts
I thought the best thing to do in my approaching dotage would be to compile a proper lexicon. My entries are my full responsibility and all are based on useless and odd observations during my life, especially in these last few weeks. I will, as much...
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The Bio-Ethics Committee: a declared conflict of interest?
The debate about IVF procedures rages on and no, I am not going to join it. Like I explained to the lady who asked me how come I have not yet put my two cents' worth, more qualified people than me have already made the relevant points. This doesn't...
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ISTANBUL
You'll have noticed that I haven't been visible for a couple of days. This is not - no doubt to the chagrin of my detractors who feel I have no right to an opinion except theirs - because I have been Bundied, simply because I have been away, so I...
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Easter is a shout of victory
"Easter is a shout of victory! No one can extinguish that life that Christ resurrected. Not even death and hatred against Him and against His Church will be able to overcome it. He is the victor! Just as He will flourish in an Easter of unending...
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BEWARE: A strong opinion
Thank God I don't work for or write anything for TVM. I'd have to be telling the editor all about my views before all the programmes I'd take part in. I just looked at the PBS guidelines and wow they are one strange set of silly cookies. If you ever...
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A thought for Good Friday and Holy Saturday
If today and tomorrow you are interested in reflecting on the significance of the Easter Triduum, particularly on Good Friday and Holy Saturday can I direct you to Bruce Springsteen the 62 year old American singer-songwriter-performer? In my column...
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15-years-old and famous (for all the wrong reasons)
We're officially part of a generation where people will do practically anything for their fifteen minutes of fame – even if the fame is vicarious and can only be achieved by shoving a teenage daughter on Youtube for the delectation of sexual...
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Gunning Down Memories
It all started with the news story about hunters and, our now infamous Spring Hunting Season. Apart from making me feel sick to my stomach, the news flung me down memory lane and landed me with a Rubik’s Cube in hand. Sadly, some members of my...
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Making pigs of ourselves and to hell with VAT
Poor little piggy stuck on a spit with fire roasting him till he's nice and tender. But I'm not here to fight for, or applaud, the ways of vegetarians and vegans. Some operators of restaurants lately alleged the problem is not the poor pig or the...
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MY LIFE
Maybe it's because I'm over the hill, actuarily speaking, but Bondi+ last Tuesday struck a chord. I don't mean that the speakers were particularly impressive or that the facts made known were all that earth-shatteringly new: way back when I was...
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A PR fiasco
Sunday dawned, shops opened and the pit of hell failed to open up. What did open up, however, is a very obvious position within the Church's PR department (does it even have one?) I've already said this and I'll say it again. The Church needs to get...
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A contented mind
Last week was a more hectic-than-normal week. I had to prepare myself for a very important occasion. I still managed to meet my usual deadlines and even beat them. In fact in a space of five days I posted four different blogs about the Pope's...
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FOR LIFE
The Bishop of Gozo has been on another of his excursions into the realm that many feel is the province of politicians, insofar as politicians are the ones meant to discourse on matters that concern "we, the citizens". Actually, he's been on two,...
