Happy Long Life!

Long life to you who have children
Long life to you who have pets
Long life to you who like birds
Long life to you who like to work
Long life to you who know compassion
Long life to you who like to laugh
Long life to nurses, journalists and teachers
Long life to Katherine Jenkins and all people who sing!

Make your own blessing

There is a fable that all French kids have to know, about an old gardener that everybody mocks because he is planting trees (at his age!)and will not benefit of their shadow; the old man replies that he tastes today the pleasure of planting.
My friend Anne-Marie Costrini is tasting today the pleasure of graduating as a Paralegal. You see her surrounded by her family in the middle of this picture taken by our local television WTOC. She is 91 years old. Anne-Marie still has a job; she is an A student and enjoys studying: she plans to go on and become a lawyer (you can see more about her here
So, if you think that it is too late for anything, shame on you!

Journalist of the month: Borzou Daragahi

Libya's coup: Turning militants against Al Qaeda
This is the first encouraging paper about terrorism in a long long time. As a Pulitzer finalist, Mr Daraghi does not need the congratulations of my little blog, but this is a fine paper indeed. It baffled me.
Moreover, the Los Angeles Times is one of the best papers in the world for international politics:it is about time I nominate one of their great journalists with this heartfelt thank you.
I did not know that Libya was making any effort of that kind. Seen from here, many countries seem a bit apathetic regarding terrorism, just like for the Israel-Palestinian conflict: it is complicated, and there are people very active at taking advantage of it. People and politicians who thrive in wounds, like fly larvae.

So today, some good news. I needed that.

On Tiger Woods

Quite a few people made money out of trashing Tiger Woods, with excuses ranging from "the public needs to be informed" to "If I do not do it, somebody else will."
Well, tabloid guys, you should follow Tiger's example: quit that job and become better persons.

Thinking about business

"... the alpha and omega of business life has become keeping up the share price. Innovation and investment can go hang."

In an interesting paper of Will Hutton in the UK Guardian

It would be funny, if it were not so sad

you got to read this.
I am not commenting on it: I am speachless

I am almost out of it!