An email from Portugal…
Italics = Emailer Regular Text = o grande, espantar-se, e o Pook magnífico! Now, as you may be aware, Portugal was under the Salazarist dictatorship till ’74. Although there were many problems with this regime way of thinking and acting, such as extreme censorship, one of the things held in a high place by those […]
RIP Eternal Bachelor
Eternal Bachelor blog is no more. All the archives are also gone. It is up to Duncan to whether he explains more on the complete shutting down of his blog. The removal of the archives strikes me a little suspicious. There were two problems with Eternal Bachelor blog: One, it was becoming very popular. Two, Duncan had […]
American Women Suck forum taken down
Like Voltaire, I always believe in free speech. Words are just words. But it amazes me how people want to ban and delete websites/speech that goes against what they believe. Or, rather, they only interpret it as ‘hate speech’ and demand it go away. You might ask, “Pook, why do they have such a reaction […]
Has Thailand fallen to Jihad?
It is beginning to look that way. BANGKOK, Thailand – Thailand’s army commander staged a coup Tuesday night and ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra while he was in New York, circling his offices with tanks, declaring martial law and revoking the constitution. Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin, who is known to be close to Thailand’s revered monarch […]
No Compromise in Religious War
While I’m not sure what Daily Show’s intention of the below clip is, it has swerved into a huge truth. The conflicts of the Middle East and, perhaps, the World are political or financial. They are religious. There are diplomats who say one must compromise with Islam. This would be a funny thing to observe […]