The poem is very touching.

It really dont happen everyday

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It’s times like these that you really wish that whole “believing in the human race” thing, would kick in…
MANILA (AFP) - A jobless man was shot dead by a security guard for singing out of tune in a Philippine karaoke bar, police said Thursday.
Romy Baligula, 29, was halfway through his song on Tuesday night in […]

Perhaps the best critic and/or observer of the recent food poisoning cases in Jordan stemming from fish and shawarma mayo, has been Emad Hajjaj. These are some of the past few caricatures that captured my attention…

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Amman, May 7 (Petra) — Public Security Department Spokesperson Basheer D’ajah said that fire erupted in the main Courtyard of Amman Customs Department on Monday dawn where it burnt five trucks loaded with chocolate three of which are not Jordanian, one is Jordanian and the fifth one wasn’t identified because it was totally burnt.
In statements […]

Many passengers were left stranded Thursday night as the dreadful Windows blue screen of death struck Queen Alia International Airport and no one could figure out when their planes were leaving. According to inside sources, passengers were told to press CTRL+ALT+DEL and then re-enter the terminal in Safe Mode.

On another note…we all miss you very […]

I loved Osama Hajjaj’s take on the movie “300″, it absolutely cracked me up. I think in the Arab World, Spartans would either be hardcore Jordanians or Egyptians.

h/t: amjad

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While fellow Jordanian blogger Roba is busy with her redesigning-Jordan’s-recycling-system project that’s part of her graduation requirement this year, I thought this was a funny take on how recycling actually works in our country. And if you haven’t seen at least two of the below examples then you’re just not looking hard enough at our […]

I usually won’t post email forwards but this was just too good for me to pass up:

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I think Hajjaj’s latest explains perfectly the inflation situation in Jordan…

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Note: The Arabic version of the above (which was too tiny to photograph) has the calories at 640.

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Loyal readers of this blog know that the women’s quota in Jordanian politics is something I’ve spoken of (against) several times on this blog. One of those readers, Maha, emailed me a Jordanian music video that was actually done as a sketch on a popular JTV comedy show: “Haik; Mish Haik”.
It’s not the funniest […]

Who’s supplying Iran with arms…head and shoulders…knees and toes?

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Nearly 10 days ago before the other shoe fell and a unity government was in the works, an interesting event occurred that flew under my radar; probably because it was a different kind of Palestinian “infighting”. In a meeting between top Fatah members at the government headquarters in Ramallah, Mr. Tawfiq Tirawi, who heads the […]