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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought May 5, 2008, 11:16 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... So, Mr Zuma: Those high fuel prices bothering you too? by Chris Moerdyk on May 5th, 2008 Dear Mr Zuma When you voiced your concern in a speech last week about escalating fuel prices, you can be sure that every single South African, with the exception perhaps of the current Cabinet incumbents and a few hardarses at Sasol, would have be... The free-will delusion? by Ndumiso Ngcobo on May 5th, 2008 Imagine that you are in your favourite room at home. My personal favourite room in the house is my bedroom. I love my bedroom because; simply by being in there, I reduce the statistical probability of running into my three-year old and accidentally r... Lessons for the DA: From Woolworths nogal! by Alex Matthews on May 4th, 2008 The DA is in crisis. A friend of mine at the University of Cape Town tells me that joining the party's student wing, Daso, is social suicide. And as such, its reputedly attractive members are remaining unloved and unlaid -- leaving me wondering as ... Why the acid? by Sandy Carroll on May 4th, 2008 The saying: "someone's really acid", contains more substance than one might think. It's not only a result of being jacked off about something/someone, but can actually have a physiological cause. Those bad moods and snide remarks could be the res... McCain's repeal of the "Alternative Minimum Tax" shades of Gordon Brown's 10p debacle? by Michael Trapido on May 4th, 2008 Gordon Brown is set to scrap many of his proposed tax increases pursuant to threats of a backbench rebellion arising from the disaster that was Labour's showing at the local and London elections. Not for voters Britain's foreign policy or climate cha... My love-hate relationship with technology by Eve Dmochowska on May 3rd, 2008 I have noticed a life cycle with my enthusiasm for any new piece of technology: At first I love it Then I love it some more, and start hooking up other people with it Then I begin to notice the bugs, which I try to ignore because the tech... Don't blame fatties for being fat by Bruce Cohen on May 3rd, 2008 Fat is enigmatic stuff and there's literally much more to it than meets the eye. It was fat that first got me interested in nutritional health, one day stumbling upon Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill by Canadian Udo Erasmus who broke through the anti-f... Cometh the hour, will the man falleth flat on his face? by Tony Jackman on May 3rd, 2008 God love 'em, the world could use more mavericks like Boris Johnson and Jacob Zuma. Keep your dull politicians, your people of note with their perfect pedigrees and coiffed scalps, honed in austere academies, planed and sanded at the finest fini... Tsvangirai would be as mad as Bob to stand in these circumstances by Michael Trapido on May 3rd, 2008 South African President Thabo Mbeki, having failed to query how Zanu-PF knew the result of the presidential election a month before the ZEC, and ignored all reports of murder, torture and intimidation which started immediately thereafter -- no doubt ... Towards a "world free speech day" by Guy Berger on May 2nd, 2008 No one could disagree with a global day dedicated to "press" freedom, as marked around the world on Saturday 3 May. Under the auspices of UNESCO, and as agreed by the UN General Assembly a decade or so ago, the 3 May every year is "World Press F... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za