The right not to vote

I consider myself a responsible and fully-paid up member of my society. I participate in the PTA at my daughter’s school, and I am involved in the neighborhood council.
We do not do anything too exciting in our council; it’s only putting together the funds for the refuse collection, and that for the neighborhood guards. We [...]

The End of Humanity? (Part 1)

Believing as I do that human beings need each other, I am always interested to know why there is such a constant battle for control. We are social animals and yet we are capable of, and even driven by, extreme acts of violence in order to obtain or retain power.
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The pleasure of pain

I hate, hate, HATE high heels. And I mean with a furious passion. But it will not stop me from admiring them, I tell you. [...]

In the eye of the beholder

I must have been five or six when I slapped Shasha for calling me a ‘Black Monkey’ on the play ground in front of my bestfriend Sam and his twin, who religiously scribbled marriage proposals to me almost daily. This incident crops up every now and then as I contemplate that mysterious thing called race.For [...]