The UNP’s volatile urban chauvinists

Amongst the oddest pronouncements on the General Election was the claim of the Opposition Leader that Parliament did not have a mandate from the people. Interestingly enough, this assertion, that ‘Though the Government has a majority they do not have a mandate from the people’ was reported in just one Sunday paper, while the papers that normally highlight opposition rhetoric kept silent about this particular gaffe.

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A one-sport nation is nothing to brag about

Sunday night, May 2, 2010 I went to an amazing place; a gymnasium with all kinds of strange looking gadgets. Now I have been to gymnasiums and have seen exercise machines. I’ve seen television programs where well built men and women with what are taught to believe are ‘perfect bodies’ go on and on about the virtues of such equipment. I haven’t really paid much notice to these things.

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Serb Parliament apologizes for Srebrenica genocide:

Will United Nations too apologize?

On March 31, 2010 the Serbian Parliament apologized for the 1995 genocide of around 9,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, after years of denial that it ever occurred. The massacre has been described as the worst war atrocity since World War II. Many described this move not as a change of heart, but as a ruse to join the European Union.

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