Someone’s serious business, my frivolity
While the bulk of material on Synapses is rather serious in nature, I must confess that I sometimes engage in trivial pursuits. Like laughing at the way in which people sometimes take themselves far too seriously, and flying to London for 4 days, simply to watch a FA Cup Quarter-Final match between Manchester United and Arsenal. Below, I offer a brief account of these two activities, in the hope that readers will sometimes be less critical of the more serious things I have to say, now that they have confirmation that I’m just like them (well, sort of).
It’s often not the product that’s defective – it’s us
Simply put, we’d have far less trouble with the law if we simply obeyed it. I’m of course making a general point, rather than addressing complications such as those involved where the law is wrong, and where we might have a moral or political duty to oppose it
Shock and horror as it’s revealed that students have premarital sex
How sad when, after 4 years of expensive education at the University of Cape Town, some students never shake the narrow-mindedness and bigotry displayed in this rant about the evils of pre-marital sex.
SA Blog Awards 2010
Oh come on, you know you want to vote for me in the SA Blog awards 2010.
Emancipate yourself from mental snobbery
With the Nespresso, I have to swallow some pride – sure. But what I get in return is a good cup, every time, where the “time” in question is rather short, seeing as the thing boots up and dispenses in a minute or so.
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