Weeks ago, as 2012 climaxed, the airwaves and socialways were agog with pictures and words about the fatal shooting of over 20 kids in the heretofore peaceful Connecticut neighbourhood of Sandy Hook.
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I love Nigeria. Our problems are debilitating to the point of paralysis, but I still love my country because it always manages to bring smiles to my face, despite this unenviable load
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I wish the team Stephen Keshi took to the Nations Cup were indeed a “Biafran” team, as the noise claimed in the sluggish start.
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The Man Who Sued God is a 2001 movie in which an Aussie fisherman sues God for a lightning bolt that wrecks his fishing boat. Insurance companies insert an “Act of God” clause in contracts which means they are not liable for such events as an accident resulting from a lightning bolt – an act of God.
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For me, tolerance means “to live and let live”. However, I’ve scouted for impressive sounding dictionaries to assure myself that I am not blowing smoke up my own ass.
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Lightning, they say, doesn’t strike twice in the same place. That’s what they say. If you’re dumb enough, wait in the same place and see if the lightning doesn’t strike you as many times as it wishes.
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Purchasing things like contraception and sexual safety gear (such as condoms) can be very difficult. It normally shouldn’t be but in a society that presupposes that nobody ever has sex and that children most probably fall from heaven, it is.
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I know it is a rather touchy subject matter and I know I’ll probably get sniped at by all sorts of formerly rational individuals, who at the clarion call of religion abandon all rationality and lapse into the most mind-numbing bouts of, well, irrationality.
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