September 2011
11 posts
The challenge the death penalty poses for US...
“The incident that happened that night is not my fault. I did not have a gun. All I can ask … is that you look deeper into this case so that you really can finally see the truth. I’m not the one who personally killed your son, your father, your brother. I am innocent.”
The latter were the last words of convicted police killer Troy Davis as he was...
“You can be like Madonna and cling to youth with your Gollum arms. Or you can be...”
– 30 Rock
“Looking at a pot or thinking of a pot it was in vain that Watt said, ‘pot,...”
– Samuel Beckett. The master of no meaning?
Ban on gay blood donation lifted. If only this...
The ban on gay male blood donation that has been in effect since the 1980s has today apparently been lifted. Gay males, expected from November, will be allowed to give blood in a long overdue reversal of a lifetime ban set out in the 1980s to combat the increasing spread of HIV and Aids. My problem? It comes with one clause…. you have to be...
