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? […]

According to the latest Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International, Jordan now ranks 47 (2008), down rather significantly from last year’s position of 53. The Kingdom ranked 40 in 2006 and 37 in 2005 and 2004.
It should be noted that TI measures perceived corruption, employing a methodology that usually consists of surveys that poll experts, […]

Its first (of many-to-come) Arabic posts.

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The story is as follows. A wife and mother tells her husband that she’s been sleeping around with other men in exchange for money and wants a divorce. So they go to a lawyer’s office and she writes down the names of all these men, for what reason, I cannot possibly comprehend. Then she’s taken […]

Who would’ve thought that blogs, social networking, SMS messages and the Internet in general, would be such a Ramadan-enabler, creating what is perhaps a Ramadani Web 2.0 subculture in the Arabian peninsula. Here’s a sampling of just some of the SMS messages that arrived to my cell phone since Ramadan began…
[translated from Arabic] The month […]

This is a quick message to all Jordanian bloggers and their readers who helped spread the word these past couple of days regarding the Action Committee’s Ramadan food drive. In all honesty, I do wish there were more contributions, but for something put together in ten days and dependent mainly on local, Jordanian, online activism, […]

Disclaimer: I want to emphasize that this post is an opinion and it is not one based on religious doctrine. It is based on political and social elements. I know it’s Ramadan, but I implore you to avoid quoting me the entire Quran just to prove a point or as a way of insisting that […]

“Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he’s president that he’ll take on, and I quote, ‘the old boys network in Washington.’ Now I’m not making this up. This is somebody who’s been in Congress for twenty-six years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he […]

And now, a brief interruption in the US Presidential campaign…
Nader talks to a parrot (whom I mistook to be his running mate) about media coverage, national health care and of course, dressing up as a panda and making love to another panda at the zoo.

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