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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought April 15, 2008, 11:15 am Get 15% discount on books All Thought Leader newsletter subscribers receive a 15% discount on books ordered from the Exclusive Books website. Simply go to the order form and use the Thought Leader promo code MGT1. Buy Books... The Will Ferrell Fan Club by Bridget McNulty on April 15th, 2008 I used to find Will Ferrell extremely irritating. All that posturing, those dumb voices, that enforced stupidity. But then I watched Stranger than Fiction, which immediately zoomed to one of my top three favourite movies of all time (and which... Fun toys or maybe the next big technology thing by Anja Merret on April 15th, 2008 Watching what my younger daughter gets up to in geekland is always interesting. She is one of the early adopters of digital technology. Thanks to her, I have been a Twitter member since January 2007, months after she had joined, of course, and had a ... Life expectancy in Zimbabwe by Terri Barnes on April 15th, 2008 Life expectancy for a woman in Zimbabwe is 34 years. So, if I were a Zimbabwean woman/statistic, I would have been dead for 16 years by now. I'd be a very faded memory, a big grin in a yellowing photo tucked into the dusty pages of a novel that no ... Hippocrates and hypocrisy walk hand in hand in wellnessland by Bruce Cohen on April 14th, 2008 I have spent the past four years immersed in the alternative-health sector, becoming increasingly aware of the interconnectedness between food, environment and health. Over the next few months I want to explore some of these connections and invite a ... Fake crack for the elderly and a six-year-old sex offender: Bring back corporal punishment! by Michael Trapido on April 14th, 2008 This week the Sowetan ran a poll to try to assess its readers' views on the best way to ensure safety at schools -- turns out that corporal punishment came romping in as the "weapon of choice". Sucks to all of you who gave me an earful for daring to ... Positively positive by Miriam Mannak on April 14th, 2008 I am tired. Flippin' tired -- of all those folks who spend their days complaining, bitching, moaning, whining and whingeing about how bad it is in South Africa. A week or so ago, I had breakfast with a friend and her buddies. One of them -- a platinu... Denying the denial by Jonathan Berger on April 14th, 2008 Ours is not a nation in denial. Sure, much has been said -- and denied -- about the president's views on HIV and its causal link to Aids. Comparable stuff has been written about his views, and those of the Cabinet collective, on crime, corruption, ... The racism is in the reading by Vincent Maher on April 14th, 2008 The "firing" of David Bullard has kept my mind busy all weekend because I have an uncomfortable sense that something is very wrong with the situation and its various interpretations. Aside from these concerns, something that concerns me even mor... Hey Bob! Don't forget some other people who helped put you where you are by Chris Moerdyk on April 14th, 2008 Dear Mr Mugabe Do you get the feeling you are running out of friends? Sure, Thabo and a few other leaders in the region who believe that friendship and old school ties are far more important than petty little considerations such as national inter... All aboard Shabangu's Bang Bang Club by Alex Matthews on April 14th, 2008 After the startling success of her president's Native Club (the koeksisters at their Tuynhuys imbizos were reputed to have been a particular hit), a deputy minister has made a desperate escape from obscurity with the launch of the Bang Bang Club. ... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za