It may sound strange to Western ears, but belief in witchcraft, the power of witch-doctors and the traffic in muti (medicine, potions, call it what you will) conveying power or warding off evil is rampant across much of the globe. I was reminded of this by a recent outcry in Sweden concerning plans by a… Continue reading Of witches, witch-doctors and the disposal thereof
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Bravery – on both sides of the grave
I’d like to ask any reader who suntans heavily, or uses tanning salons, or has family and friends who do so, to please read this post very carefully and view the linked videos. It’s important. Australian Clare Oliver contracted melanoma (skin cancer) at the age of 22, most likely through the over-use of sunbeds (artificial… Continue reading Bravery – on both sides of the grave
When people forget to be human beings
There’s a terribly sad, hard-to-read post up on My Own Woman’s blog. She describes a mother whose only interest is in her present relationship, at the expense of her son. I’ve had to deal with so many cases of parental neglect like this . . . the children usually grow up with no sense of… Continue reading When people forget to be human beings
Lest we forget: Auschwitz, 1945
On this date, January 27, 1945, the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz in Poland was liberated by the forces of the Soviet Union. In the preceding three years, something over a million people (the exact total will never be known) had been murdered there on an assembly-line basis. They were part of approximately six million… Continue reading Lest we forget: Auschwitz, 1945
When “the law is an ass”.
The title of this post is, of course, a quotation from Charles Dickens’ well-known novel Oliver Twist. Would that it could remain as a novelist’s turn of phrase . . . but very sadly, it proves true time and again in this sick, twisted world of ours. In England, five pre-teen and teenage thugs tortured… Continue reading When “the law is an ass”.
Another good man leaves us
I’m sorry to have to report that George McDonald Fraser, famed author of the ‘Flashman’ novels and many other books, has died. Fraser was a truly superb raconteur, skilled with language and vocabulary to paint a picture in words that was almost unsurpassed by contemporary authors. I’m sad to think that we’ll hear no more… Continue reading Another good man leaves us
Tragedy of the day
How I hate it when I read these things . . . 🙁 A man from Natchez, MS shot and killed his wife when he mistook her for an intruder. There are so many things one could say . . . but I’ll say only this. If you hear a noise in your home you’d… Continue reading Tragedy of the day