Right about now, everyone is busy logging on to their Facebook accounts to write an eid-oriented status. May it be a blessing on you all!

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Royal Court Chief, Bassem Awadallah, has handed in his resignation and HM King Abdullah has accepted it. I think his gravitational pull with regards to controversies has set an interesting tone this past year, let alone the past several years to say the least. I don’t know what this decision means and I’ll leave the […]

There is talk, once again, of an all-out smoking ban throughout the Kingdom’s public places. Rest assured smokers, i.e. the overwhelming majority of you, this is yet another policy that will never see the light of day. The Healthy Ministry is hoping places “voluntarily” remove smoking from their facilities, and if they don’t, which they […]

Qaradawi is sparking a bit of a controversy in the region with his views on Shiites, which are not new. In this of all things, there are two routes to consider. One can point out the differences between the sects in an attempt to find common ground and bring about unity (which I think rarely […]

…That’s guaranteed to put you in a good mood: everyday.
Have a great weekend everyone!

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More in common than you think…
Over 70% of Palestinians in the West Bank opposed unity with Jordan, compared to 60 per cent in Gaza, according to the report from the Nablus-based centre
When will people stop talking about the “Jordan Option”?
I think we’ve gotten to a point where it can be classified as not being an […]

Nothing really. I just enjoy a good Yahoo! misprint…

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…Along with Tom & Jerry and the rest of my childhood…

Well, it should be pointed out that I think the brief second of hesitation towards the end suggested the he was aware Mickey is a cartoon and so was being somewhat satirical about the killing of him. Because really, how do you kill a cartoon? […]