https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gandalph/Life is magic, and the fun of it is persuading others to your point off viewhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gandalph/536800Will it take blood on the streets of Harare, dismembered bodies in the ghettos of Bulawayo, and raped women and children in camps on the South African borders before the spineless leaders of South Africa and the West get off their collective butts and finally do something about Robert Mugabe....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gandalph/536547While it is easy to point fingers at idiot bankers who got us into this sub prime mess, let us not forget two important points: 1 It is us the consumers who have spent more than we earned - surviving on cheap credit and overvalued personal assets 2 Alan Greenspan who allowed this cloud cuckoo...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gandalph/535835We all sympathise with athletes from decent countries who will lose out on the 2008 Olympics, but, sadly, in a world of competing priorities, the urgent needs of oppressed peoples rank higher than the medal aspirations of our world class competitors. The IOC should decide, as a matter of urgency...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gandalph/535395In the old days when Apartheid South Africa was the world's favourite whipping boy, massive progress toward a free and fair democracy was made when the country's top sportspeople were denied world-class competition both at the Olympics and in the test arenas of cricket and rugby football. A total...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gandalph/534545Population increases, pressure on natural resources, global warming, and the great divide between rich and poor, are all combining to make us more conscious of ourselves as a united human race on a crowded planet rather than an amorphous grab bag of competing, and often warring, nations. Nine...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gandalph/534279When adults are afraid to go out on the streets at night, because of marauding gangs of violent teenagers, and when society is held captive by its young, then we are long overdue for a big rethink on how we deal with our young people. The first, and most popular, target for blame is usually the...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gandalph/534047The King is Dead Long live the king! Before we get too excited about the welcome demise of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, let us remember that his successor comes to power in a system that is inherently corrupt, in a country that is riven with tribal in fighting and on a continent that has yet to learn...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gandalph/487606Let us be fully aware as we remember the horror of six years ago this day that it is not really possible "to make war on terror" when the purpose of terrorism is to shock and horrify. The more outrageous the act of terrorism, the more brutal the outcome, the more successful the terrorist....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gandalph/487605Imagine you are watching your son’s soccer team. You see that only two boys are running around, passing the ball, and actively engaged in the game. Five youngsters stand on the sidelines laughing at them. Four others are sitting well away from the field under a tree goofing off, smoking and...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gandalph/487604Somehow there seems to be a worry about the suggestion that children who persistently and consistently refuse to do the work required of them in school should be thrown out and refused entry to any other educational institution, or on to the streets if you will. But why not? These children are...