Nowadays most pieces of news we hear about England seem to reinforce the general picture that indeed the country’s society is undergoing tragic transformations, the rug of its moral integrity is coming apart thread by thread. Values, social institutions like the family are fading, the new generation if rootless, indoctrinated by many hours of television [...]

Remembering the good times:

The Guardian made a list this April with the greatest speeches of the last century. I copied the list here, but on their website you can read the edited texts and even listen to them.
Winston Churchill We shall fight on the beaches June 4 1940
John F Kennedy Ask not what your country can do for [...]

Battlestar Galactica Office style

And Brokeback style

The Pirahã people have no history, no descriptive words and no subordinate clauses. That makes their language one of the strangest in the world — and also one of the most hotly debated by linguists.
Rafaela von Bredow, Spiegel Online
During one of his first visits to Brazil’s Pirahãs, members of the tribe wanted to kill Daniel [...]

My singing sucks and I have small boobs, if I get them “fixed” I can still be a pop star. And I can’t accept no I’m not willing to accept the fact that they did this to Paris Hilton, they couldn’t have she is perfect and all….. everybody knows that. Are we seriously misled?!

Feeling a bit melancholic ……..

Man I’ve been looking for this for a long while…. it is a must. (sorry for the language)

Today we are switching to a ligther mood, no “last day prophecies” no corrupt politicians no “what is this world coming to-s”. I feel a bit sick and tired of people, of their problems, of my problems for that matter! I just want to lay back, relax, enjoy the sunshine and smoke weed. (just kidding [...]

The following article is from The Independent, and sounds quite horrifying. I guess life would be a lot simpler and less dangerous if independent studies could really be conducted and multinational companies were not putting huge money and effort into influencing their outcome, or ordering them to prove their point of view in the first [...]

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