The decline of Marit Bjørgen

Too me, watching her go in the first day of the World Skiing Championships in Sapporo, Japan was in a way a step forward. But, and it’s a big one, I kinda’ have the feeling that she, unfortunately, is done! The worlds best male skier a couple of years ago, Per Olofsson of Sweden, there […]

The best rock’n roll bands ever

I came across some good music recently and I thought, what the heck’, who are the best bands in rock’n roll history. I mean, when even thinking a diagnostic peril as “the 20 best rock bands ever,” one can either cower in anticipation of the monsoon of disagreement sure to come and load the package […]

Dixie Chicks slams the Grammies

The best album of 2006, “Taking the Long Way” – with the brilliant lyrics in “Not ready to make nice” (Most country radio stations have shown little interest in playing the Chicks’ music since March 10, 2003, when Natalie Maines told an audience in London that she was ashamed that President Bush is from Texas) […]

Anna Nicole Smith

I knew it — after having watched the marauding media pirates of cable news cruise the high-seas of Anna Nicole Smith’s death last night, I should have avoided this morning’s newspaper coverage. But, smack-dab on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle was a tribute to Smith with this sub-head: “To many women her […]

President Mbeki and the situation in South Africa

So many years later, when ANC was voted in a a democratic election, there are so many things pointing the wrong way in South Africa. Since President Mbeki came to power, what have he done? Even in yesterdays public address to the nation, he refused to mention the most critical things – the relation with […]