Month: December 2006

I try to keep up with the Joneses and so forth, but sometimes I tend to let them slip away. Here’s what’s been happening in the world, at least things that I missed, being all preoccupied with my own shizzle. Perhaps you’ve missed ‘em too: Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator, died on December 10th Kofi Annan made…

Sometimes life has a way to teach you lessons, so much so that it repeats the pattern until you get it right. For those of us who hang on to things, it makes it so that we cannot. For those of us who feel security in possessing things, it has a way of having those…

For this month’s meditation, I want to move away from Buddhist quotes and take a look at some of my most favorite quotes by chilean poet Pablo Neruda. My reason for this is quite simple, since Philipe Noiret, the French actor who passed away in late November, played him in Il Postino, I thought this would be a…

Italian soldiers are coming home. It may be a trivial note to add that 39 soldiers from my mother country died in this whole ridiculous affair. Still, 39 men died for…? Weapons of…no, finding Osam…no, oh ya, spreading democracy. 

In celebration of World AIDS Day, I think both men and women should know how to properly put a condom on. Here are the basic steps: Store your condoms in a cool, dry place. 2. Put a drop or two of lubricant inside the condom. 3. If the penis is not circumcised, pull back the…