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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought March 27, 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... Boston Legal. It's brilliant by Bridget McNulty on March 27th, 2008 This seems to be the week of effusive praise. Have you watched Boston Legal? If not, may I suggest putting your computer to sleep (it's environmentally friendlier) and heading down to your local DVD store to hire a series of it? Guaranteed, you... Sowetan opinion poll a mini-referendum on Zuma and arms deal? by Michael Trapido on March 26th, 2008 Yesterday, although it may still be up, the Sowetan ran an opinion poll that posed the following question: "Do you think that people/organisations who received kickbacks in the arms deal should receive amnesty?" The result at the time of writing, wit... Why we must boycott the Olympics by Chris Rodrigues on March 26th, 2008 Before considering a few arguments on why a boycott is obligatory, let's be clear about why this is not yet happening on any significant scale. There are, I think, at least two broad reasons. The most pivotal has to do with the ambivalent attitude of... A man who helped me dream by Kanthan Pillay on March 26th, 2008 "Having done several thousand interviews in all media, I'm now completely fed up with talking (even about myself). Everything anyone needs to know will be found in my own writings ... " February 8 1999 It's a sweltering day in what is definitely... Blogging as a fad is over; serious blogging arrives by Arthur Goldstuck on March 26th, 2008 The South African blogging numbers for 2007 and the beginning of 2008 are in, and they tell a story almost as eloquent as do some of the blogs. Just six months ago, blogging was the next big internet fad in South Africa. Seemingly from nowhere, in... ANCYL and the tale of the fabled small print by The Sumo on March 26th, 2008 * Not for sale to persons under the age of 18 * There has never been a more redundant piece of small print than the one stated above and which forms a neglected part of the artwork panels for labels of alcoholic beverages in marketing-agency work-... And the anti-coconut parents descended upon the sandwich platter ... by Ndumiso Ngcobo on March 25th, 2008 If you had told me that South Africans were passionate about their constitutional right to call each other by derogatory terms, I would have told you to put the blunt down or pass it along coz you're clearly smoking potent stuff. If you had told ... Militant atheism, wicked untruths from the church or the island of Dr Moreau? by Michael Trapido on March 25th, 2008 In November 2007, in an effort to update the laws on fertility treatment and embryo research, the British government introduced the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Key proposals in the Bill are: ensuring that all human embryos outside ... Racists (accidentally) admit the inherent equality of all people by Christi van der Westhuizen on March 25th, 2008 Reading the responses to my last blog, one can only wonder if honest introspection is at all possible in this society, rent as it is by greed and bigotry. An anonymous little letter landed on my desk the other day. It was a photocopy of a book exc... Energy-crisis myths, misrepresentations and fallacies by Reader Blog on March 25th, 2008 Submitted by Bryan Hadfield Much of the recent reporting on the Eskom crisis is based on a poor understanding of the true nature of the energy problems and what would constitute useful responses from the public. Half-truths, disingenuous excuses, ... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za