RD Bowls A Googly – Sweet Sixteen Letter To Self

by ViceUnVersa (viceunversa.blogspot.com) S ome facts I wish the both of us knew at 16. There is many, I’ll concentrate on the most important: All the moola about masturbation is not true. However times you shake it, it does not fall off. So have fun. You will smoke your first BRistol soon, detest, please don’t. [...]

Who Do We Bank On Now?

With so many having been swindled of their savings by companies such as HPT, Mercantile Credit, Sakvithi and the greatest rip-off of them all, Ceylinco Gold Key, I categorically state no action has been taken by the government and Central Bank authorities to bring the perpetrators to book or give relief to the suffering people. [...]

Generals Are Good Too

Your columnist Wathsala writing in The Sunday Leader on the unsuitability of Generals and Gen. Sarath Fonseka in particular to serve as president of a democratic nation is emphatic that military men by nature of their training, are ruthless single minded individuals who are accustomed to giving orders and therefore lack the capacity to travel [...]

By Hook Or By Crook, Fonseka Warned

By Munza Mushtaq Military Spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara yesterday warned that the army will be compelled to resort to ‘other’ methods if former Chief of Defence Staff Sarath Fonseka does not comply with their ‘diplomatic’ pleas to return the vehicles and security he is still using without authority. “We have written and asked him to [...]

Freedom Of Religion

Freedom of religion is one of the fundamental rights of man.  Provided his religious practice does not harm society, man should be free to profess his beliefs and practice his religion without any hindrance. This is because religion is a matter between man and God. World religions have never compelled their followers to either deny [...]

Letter To My Sixty Year Old Self

by Going Global (abdulhalik.wordpress.com) O verkilling the tag. With apologies to RD. To my sixty year old self, I hope you have the eyesight to read this, if you’re still alive. Life will always contradict itself. So before you look back and think how carefree you were at this age. Know that at the age [...]

[News] 18 Year Old Man Kidnapped, Held At Church, And Raped By A Woman

by The Curious Monkey (thecuriousmonkey.com) And that my dear readers is the story in a nutshell. The details are as follows. According to the Zimdiaspora, the 18 year old teenager was running an errand for his boss at a shopping center in Chitungwiza, New Zealand Zimbabwe. As he pulled into the parking lot, 3 women [...]

Major General Senanayake Packed Off To Jaffna

By Raisa Wickrematunge Former Special Operations Director, Major General Mahesh Senanayake has been transferred to Jaffna, Military Spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said. Senanayake formerly worked at the Office of the Chief of Defence Staff, during Sarath Fonseka’s tenure. Nanayakkara said Senanayake’s new post would be General Office Commander at Division 52, Varani, in Jaffna. The [...]

Indian Spinners Seal Emphatic Test Win Over Sri Lanka

India earned their 100th Test victory by comprehensively beating Sri Lanka by an innings and 144 runs in Kanpur. The margin was India’s biggest over Sri Lanka, surpassing the previous best of an innings and 119 runs in 1994. Resuming on 57-4, Sri Lanka were dismissed for 269 before tea with only Thilan Samaraweera offering [...]

Cheap Politics

I refer to an article in a state-run daily of November 14 captioned “Trade Minister spells out price reduction benefits,” giving the revised prices of essential food items as follows: Earlier            Now Rs.                Rs. LP Gas                                                1,863           1,550 Sugar (1 kg)                                          109                84 Dhal                                                        [...]

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