Traditionally Leap Year is a time women can propose marriage, particularly in today’s modern times, where it has become acceptable for a woman to propose to her man. The principle probably works for any other kind of partner to partner proposals too, but these are outside the scope of this piece.
There was a time when [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:06:24 on February 29th, 2008 in Society
2 Comments »It grieves me to admit it but seems like most people prefer to receive light and fluffy things through their inbox than anything serious. If the content of the message also forces them to look at life seriously then that email is heading for the trash bin, a reply with “Remove Me” in the subject [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 09:22:56 on February 28th, 2008 in Lifestyle
No Comments »My middle sister pulled me up about my obvious Barack Obama bias as I was Assessing Hilary Clinton yesterday. She is spot on of course. However, I failed to explain the reason for my bias. Let me do so now!
Firstly, any political bias I have shown to either Democratic nominee candidate in the US Presidential [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 11:53:47 on February 27th, 2008 in People
2 Comments »What’s the best way to assess someone? Through the clothes they wear? How much money they have? Who they know and who knows them? The car they drive or the expensive material things they own? Where they live, how they speak and how they say things? None of the above!
The best way to judge a [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 09:23:33 on February 26th, 2008 in Politics
No Comments »An animal is more dangerous when it is wounded. This renowned fact is most apt when you examine it and unmask that animal to be…Hilary Clinton.
Wounded and trailing badly in her US Presidential nomination battle with Barack Obama, Hilary is now apparently displaying all the signs of the wounded animal and is resorting to openly [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:00:30 on February 25th, 2008 in Politics
No Comments »On Saturday, at the One Hand Can’t Clap reworking session I attended, we discussed in passing the reality that Black people never seem to value what they have until someone outside the culture, usually a European, exploits and profiteers out of it first! All in the room agreed with some sharing examples that represented the [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:00:12 on February 24th, 2008 in Culture
1 Comment »I seem to make connections or strike up associate friendships quite easily with people everywhere I go. Some have described my personality as magnetic.
Others, usually the jealous, envious or rib-tickling ones, reluctantly utter the word “charismatic” in a sentence describing me! Obviously my tongue is firmly within my cheeks when I say all of this [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:00:45 on February 23rd, 2008 in Business
2 Comments »There is a wind of change blowing across America; a wind of hurricane proportion that could upturn everything in its path, yet the only damage being caused is the one to people’s expectations! This is the wind that is blowing Illinois Senator Barack Obama into US Presidential contention as the first Black US President.
As the [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 11:54:23 on February 22nd, 2008 in Politics
2 Comments »When I was a youth coming up we used to joke that the phonetic sounding of the word euthanasia was a government job scheme for young people from abroad! Youth an’ Asia, geddit! At the time we thought that was the funniest thing on the planet.
A little town in South Wales is not finding the [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:57 on February 21st, 2008 in Society
2 Comments »What’s the difference between a Christian fundamentalist rejoicing in the death of a homosexual and a different religious fundamentalist wishing death on a Christian?
This was the question on my mind after reading a feature where an American preacher said that the death of Heath Ledger, the “Brokeback Mountain” film actor, was “the best thing that [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:56 on February 20th, 2008 in Society
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