Seeing justice done

One of the things I haven’t got round to doing is visiting the new headquarters of the Constitutional Court at the Old Fort in Johannesburg. But even if I had, I probably would not have been able to describe it as well as this visitor has here.
The workings of the court are described in George [...]

Altered states of consciousness redux

Back in March a group of us had a synchroblog on Altered States of Consciousness. My contribution, with links to the others, is here: Notes from underground: Consciousness of absurdity and the absurdity of consciousness.
I recently came across this blog post by Anthony North, which would have been a useful addition back then.
I commend it [...]

Bulgarian nurses freed

David Holford reports that a group of Bulgarian nurses who had been sentenced to death in Libya for deliberately infecting children with HIV have been freed and returned to Bulgaria.
That is certainly good news, but one can’t help feeling that there is more to this story than meets the eye.
According to some reports, they had [...]

WordPress posting temporarily suspended

WordPress and Blogger seem to be having a competition to see how many features won’t work.
I have temporarily supsended posting here, and will post mainly on my other blog Notes from Underground at least until the MyBlogLog Recent Readers widget is displaying properly again.

WordPress woes

I started this blog 5 months ago as an experiment.
Many people in my blogroll had announced that they were switching from Blogger to WordPress, and so I thought I would try WordPress and see if it worked ant better, since so many features in Blogger Beta had stopped working (and they still don’t work).
But some [...]

Come again? Left, right, or the excluded middle?

A conservative blog for peace has just drawn my attention to the “tmatt trio”, which, as the author of the trio tells us, are as follows:
All together now — if you want to know where people who say that they are Christian believers fall on a left-to-right theological spectrum, just ask these questions:
(1) Are the [...]

George Bizos: Odyssey to freedom

I’ve just finished reading George Bizos’s autobiography, Odyssey to freedom.
Actually it’s not so much an autobiography as a record of his court cases. Apart from the first hundred pages, which deal with his boyhood in Greece, and escape from the German occupation in a leaky boat with his father and seven New Zealand soldiers, most [...]

Jesus the used-car salesman

A few weeks ago I commented on a meme about what Jesus Christ looked like. And then discussed it in more detail here: Notes from underground: Po�frika: Meme findings – what did Jesus look like?.
Recently I’ve seen this image of Jesus as a used car salesman on quite a number of blogs, including several where [...]

The youth of today, and yesterday

Laaitie, in A nation of pimps, blogs about the youth of today and the youth of yesterday, the youth of yesterday being the 1976 generation, who are now urging the youth of today to imbibe the entrepreneurial spirit.
This brings all sorts of images and memories to mind, since my youth was in the day before [...]

What kind of liberal am I?

Found this test, but it had too much American bias. In case the image doesn’t come through, it says something about “What’s your liberal identity?”
 
 

My Liberal Identity:
You are a Peace Patroller, also known as an anti-war liberal or neo-hippie. You believe in putting an end to American imperial conquest, stopping wars that have already [...]