You know that, with a title like that, things are not going to be good. It was a good ploy to make viewers sit tightly in their chairs for this particular episode – and as I sat down, clutching my little foam stress-relief basketball, I couldn’t help but wonder if it was just a cheap… Read More Review: Ugly Betty, Season 3, Episode 16: Things fall apart
There seems to have been a surge of interest in the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, at least as reflected by a steady increase in the number of people who have read my post about the subject (the post can be found here). This got me interested in checking out what’s new with the Campaign.… Read More Dove Campaign for Real Beauty: The Dove Sleep-Over for Self-Esteem
Just as I was seriously starting to wonder if the writers had decided to just drop the Christina/baby angle comes a great episode from Ugly Betty that culminates in quite a Wilhelmina-worthy birth of her child. And you all know how critical I have become lately of both Ugly Betty and Heroes, so this is… Read More Review: Ugly Betty, Season 3, Episode 15: There’s no place like Mode
Now that I have gotten the mega-massive ready frenzy out of the way, I’m slowly catching up on my TV shows, including, of course, Ugly Betty. Episode 14, The Courtship of Betty’s Father, was definitely another fun episode, but it was a little lukewarm. I still haven’t figured out if it’s the show that has… Read More Review: Ugly Betty, Season 3, Episode 14: The Courtship of Betty’s Father
It’s funny how some of us tend to limit the concept of justice to black & white. I brought up the article below during a recent conversation with friends and they were appalled by Steve Maich’s point of view that perhaps the just thing to do would be to let Black go free, even if… Read More From MacLean’s: Why it’s time to set Conrad Black free
Words that ought to be in the dictionary, ’08 edition aniston verb the inability to just let it go already: Twelve years after the championship game, Roger still anistoned that untimely fumble. blagojevich noun 1. one who commits a crime with comic ineptness: That blagojevich robbed a bank without a mask—or a gun! 2. a grown… Read More Scott Feschuk’s suggestions for 2008 dictionnary updates
Amidst the dire forecasts of a global economy headed for the toilet, contrasting against the heart-warming election of an African-American to the United States presidency, Christmas 2008 was a particularly hard one for some of the earliest victims of the current economic turmoil. But there is always a way to turn anything into something positive,… Read More A look back at Christmas 2008
Dear Sahar’s blog readers; You might have noticed that I haven’t posted anything new in the last 9 days – and if you haven’t noticed, I prefer not to know. In any case, there is an excellent reason for that – I have been catching up on my reading, which, you have probably guessed, is… Read More An apology… Or a confession?
Perspective: Crossing the divide between science and religion: a view on evolution Published on One Country, Volume 19, Issue 3 / April-June 2008 Many people today question the place of religion in an age of science. This is understandable: the extraordinary success of the scientific method at providing a nearly seamless explanatory framework for the… Read More From One Country: a Perspective on Crossing the divide between science and religion
Here is a quote that found its way to my inbox. I found it all the more interesting in the context of the mounting anger of the dwindling number of employees. Strikes are due to two causes. One is the extreme sharpness and rapacity of the capitalists and manufacturers; the other, the excesses, the avidity… Read More To strike or not to strike: justice and equity in a messed up world