There’s an eerie, deafening silence coming from the PN HQ in Pietà. Yesterday night Joyce Cassar of the No to Divorce people did her flipping utmost to try to divorce her movement (tee-hee) from any association with the priests, the nuns, or the church (as she put it not so mildly). And...
Warning: Divorce can...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
I am a non-smoker. I have been a non-smoker since November 2008 and it has been a long time since I last craved a cigarette (I almost wrote “craved a fag on my lips” we’d never have heard the end of it…). Nowadays I find the strong stench of cigarettes repulsive and...
Let me tell you abou...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
In these days of “the Great Divorce Debate” it is easy to forget what history has taught us about the struggle for basic rights in society. When we read about Rosa Parks refusing to give up a seat to a white man in 1955 we tend to assume that every other man in the USA would have...
Mother's Way
posted by Jacques René Zammit
Many moons have waxed and waned since our days in the schoolyard under the watchful supervision of adults. In those days of Lemonora and Desserta canteen treats, life was relatively simple and at the smallest sign of trouble the “adult” would step in and solve the problem with an imperial...
Un Blasfemo (no comm...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
Mai più mi chinai e nemmeno su un fiore, più non arrossii nel rubare l’amore dal momento che Inverno mi convinse che Dio non sarebbe arrossito rubandomi il mio. Mi arrestarono un giorno per le donne ed il vino, non avevano leggi per punire un blasfemo, non mi uccise la morte, ma due...