civilisationReview

  SPEAKING in Tongues? _______ I was hanging out with an ole 1980s (English-speaking Indian) friend of mine - who's still holding on, quite successfully i must add, to that elusive thing called 'style'.....which is quite a feat these fashionable but style-less days - and he was mentioning a chinese catholic woman friend of his who is quite into this 'speaking in tongues' thing that, from what i learnt from him, is becoming quite the rage amongst quite a few catholics these days here.   My first response was, "man, these people, (and their chinese archbishop even) support and revere racist and fascist leaders and governments, can't be bothered about other races and cultures, or learning their languages, and they want to move on to speaking heavenly languages?  Ask them learn terrestrial ones first."  My friend, being Indian, understood the joke and laughed.  Indians from the 80s, being more Indian and multicultural, were quite a witty lot.....till many ...

A ll these personal 'bloggers', writers, artists, etc, hosting with whomever, and buying a domain name that sounds 'professional', should remember one thing. The day you stop paying for your domain, for instance, when you drop off the twig, your website is going to go invisible. Blogspotters, for example, you've been told many a time by all those 'pro' sites on the net that you need to get a 'professional' sounding name. Sounds a lot like those times when you had to be white in order to get into a good school in the US. A '.com' sounds professional simply because it was used by news houses and companies first. Just like the rich wearing suits in the west, and all the chimps thereafter thinking that wearing one gives them some semblance of 'respectability', and even reaching psychotic proportions where one is expected to wear it, or a long sleeved shirt and tie, in sweltering climates. All of it is psychosis of course, and the fact tha...