France bans the burqa. Why stop there?

This month, the French National Assembly has passed a vote by 335 votes for and one against to ban the burqa, the black veil used to  cover the face by a small number of women in the country’s Muslim community. The Upper Chamber in France will take the final vote in September. …

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Football and Shakespeare’s Henry V

The football finalists in 2006 World Cup Finals were Italy and France. In South Africa, this month they had already suffered ignominious defeats and flown home. The French came home economy class. Such humiliation. …

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Depressesd? Don’t Ask Why. That takes time. Take a Pill

The question is: Is our society getting more depressed year by year? I read some alarming figures in the newspaper the other day that prescriptions for anti-depressants have almost doubled in the last decade. …

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