The apology buzz is still reverberating around the world of news and “opinion columnistry” and shows no signs of abating. Such reverberation is for all the wrong reasons as the two tribes have dug their trenches and are now busy expecting apologies from the other side only to nix them as soon as they arrive.…

another post in the “Generation Y?” series It’s out today and it’s supposed to be simplified. It’s probably a good lesson in admitting past mistakes though it falls short of being an apology for the aforementioned past mistakes. Anyone who has had to deal with the pyrotechnic logistical impossibility that is Windows Vista will know…

Apology vs Apologia (defining moments in language and history) Main Entry: apol·o·gy Pronunciation: \ə-ˈpä-lə-jē\ Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural apol·o·gies Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French apologie, from Late Latin apologia, from Greek, from apo- + logos speech — more at legend Date: 1533 1 a : a formal justification : defense b…

This article and accompanying Bertoon appear in today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. Arse-Null Right. First of all I have to get a question off my chest before I explode. Is Arsenal FC worth imperilling a shaky government and a political career to boot? I mean Arsene Wenger does manage to turn a…

31 years young… happy birthday bro!

Reader Danny Attard has made an interesting point in comments to the previous blog post. He highlighted a question that I had posed back on August 7th in the post “When the Rule of Law is a Gambling Act” when I asked the following: ‘So. We have a list of questions for Mr Fenech. How…