About Nationalism ~ by Hénock Gugsa

 

About Nationalism ~ by Hénock Gugsa 

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I love America as much as the next guy.  I have assimilated and absorbed all of the best features of this great land.  However, I've always felt that less bragging and a more realistic self-acceptance are a proper way to go.  The can-do attitudes of Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower were the greatest things about America.  

Currently, obviously, they seem to have vanished.  Could they be retrieved ?  Perhaps, yes.  But, I think it will require a revolution of sorts !!!  Above all, we should be wary of the dangers of "nationalism", especially the intolerance it foments.  

One of the things I love about America is the freedom of speech, and the non-kowtowing to power.  But now, fear seems to have crept in thru the backdoor on the coattails of  "false patriotism".  I think we should be open-minded and read about or listen to alternative insights on our corner of the world.  Comedians can sometimes tell the brutal truth !

"Women living with their Erikas" ~ by Eve Pollard

  

Woman’s Editor Eve Pollard gets it off her chest:
    What it’s like living with your ‘Erikas’

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 We all know what men think of big bosoms.  The roar of the 68,000 rugby crowd at Twickenham a week ago said it all.

    In a flash our heroine was free.  Bristol lost a lot of its claim to fame as the mammorable phrase “a lovely pair of Erikas” was born.    

 Women, of course, don’t all feel the same as their menfolk.

  In fact their varying views of Erika Roe and her size 38 double D cup bosom are often based on how well-endowed in the chest area they themselves are.

    So I have to breathe in, pull my shoulders back, puff up my chest, and be counted.  With a 36 C-cup size bosom, I am glad that once again the busty birds are having their day.

    Having a big bosom isn’t necessarily the greatest stroke of luck, though.

    I have been described as a girl with “more front than Brighton*. ”   Yet I still get embarrassed by the way that a woman who carries all before her somehow appears much more available to the opposite sex than her flatter-chested sisters.
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* Brighton, a resort on the south coast of England, in East Sussex, is noted for its 5.4-mile expanse of shingle beach.

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