10. Instead of players trading shirts after the game, swap wives.
9. Replace sideline Gatorade with vodka and tonic
8. Monkey referees

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I thought it sucked pretty much. Two people get together, break up after two years, and then spend a miserable 2 weeks in the condo they both don’t want to move out of. The movie sold itself as some sort of summer comedy like Anchorman or Old School and it was more of a dark […]

What if Libya had made it to the World Cup…?
Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi blasted football as modern-day slavery and said that the millions spent on the World Cup should be spent fighting poverty in developing countries, German sports agency SID reported on Monday.
“FIFA has reactivated the slavery system and the trade in human beings from […]

Why would three men trapped in a Kafkaesque limbo from which there is seemingly no escape…commit suicide?

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I don’t want to write a post about my father (on Father’s Day) or my mother (on Mother’s Day). Suffice to say they already know I love’em but I always wondered a few things about Father’s Day. Why is it that Father’s Day isn’t as big as Mother’s Day? Is it that fatherhood isn’t as […]

As Mark promised to do, he was able to knock me from my second place position in the Toot Design Competition to land on spot number three. It’s all good….it’s all good. I shall seek out my vengence in a more positive way.
Anyways Roba asked what I was going to buy. Well it’s $50 bucks […]

This is one of those movies so many people will hate and so many people will love. If you belong to the latter camp then you’re probably a fan of Jack Black.

Nacho is the ultimate underdog except he doesn’t know it. He has dreams of being the greatest fighter in Mexico but he’s grown up […]

Today I was surfing Islamonline.net and came upon this link for a website selling an “Islamic” T-shirt. The About section says: “Take pride in Islam & wear an Islamic T-Shirt!” and I’m thinking to myself…really? Is the wearing of this T-shirt a display of pride? Now I’m not going to rag on this t-shirt, especially […]

Today there was another demonstration to protest against the 4 IAF MPs that went to Zarqawi’s funeral and called him a martyr (and the victims of the Amman Bombing an “ignorant mob”). With 3,000 people I think it was a bit larger than the one earlier on this week. I wonder if one is being […]

Moments During Halftime

I don’t even think I need to translate this one except to say that the one on the left is Palestine.
Sad…but true.

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Step One: Find an arms dealer…
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday he had approved a shipment of weapons and ammunition to bolster security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Israel announced its decision amid an increasingly violent power struggle between Abbas and Hamas Islamists, who took control of the Palestinian Authority in March after […]

According to Robert Fisk, as a Brown-Skinned Muslim Canadian, I should be ‘checking the airline timetables for a flight out of town.’
This has been a good week to be in Canada â?? or an awful week, depending on your point of view - to understand just how irretrievably biased and potentially racist the Canadian press […]

Yesterday, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on the Pentagon and Congress to investigate the four-minute video posted in March on the youtube.com website.

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AMMAN, 13 Jun 2006 (IRIN) - Media in the Arab world operates in an environment that restricts freedom of opinion amid ongoing state control over major news organisations, according to a recent survey conducted by the Amman Human Rights Centre (AHRC).

â??Arab regimes are increasingly imposing restrictions on journalists to prevent them from exposing their practices, […]

…and the depression that ensues.
For the past few weeks I’ve been writing the round ups for Palestinian Blogs on Global Voices. It’s not an easy job so I don’t know how Shaden (before me) managed to do it all this time. When you do these round ups it involves a lot of reading but when […]