I am of the opinion that you can tell a person’s character by the default homepage they keep. As your web browser increasingly assumes the role of a Third Eye, a bright, clear window that opens both into and out of your mind/soul, the opening landscape it captures both defines and shapes your persona. There […]
Bruce Cohen
A former journalist, in recent years founder and CEO of Absolute Organix.
Posted inGeneral
What Carl really needs …
I’m betting that Carl Niehaus’s cortisol levels must be through the roof as the relentless stresses of being an ex-spin doctor on the ropes and on the run take their toll on the poor bugger’s health. His penchant for expensive, gourmet cuisine would have done little to prepare him for such trying times. I read […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Is Boesak ready to forgive us?
‘Tis the season of goodwill and forgiveness. And I’m in the spirit and 100% ready to forgive Terror Lekota for being a truly shite Cabinet minister and wishing him well in his new job as undertaker for the ANC. I can do that because I remember the “real” Lekota in the eighties when he was […]
Posted inLifestyle
My New Year’s resolution: Many more enemas
I was on a sensitive mission as I snuck into my local Dis-Chem and whispered discretely into the ear of a store assistant. “Hey Vusi,” she shouted down the aisle filled with pre-Christmas shoppers, “show this gentleman the enema buckets”. Vusi bounded up to me with a glint in his eye, a skip in his […]
Posted inLifestyle, News/Politics
Dr Water Crisis is seriously weird
Everyone is springing to the defence of Anthony Turton, the scientist suspended by the CSIR for his paper detailing the impending crisis in SA’s water supply. It makes grim reading. You will quickly understand why the CSIR tried to shut him up – and it’s got nothing to do with water. His paper is a […]
Posted inLifestyle
Fat lot of lies about your health
I am amazed that one of the most important books written on nutrition and health — one that systematically demolishes the myths, lies and scientific bigotry of mainstream health dogma — has received so little attention in this country. Perhaps I shouldn’t be. Published last year, Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes is not […]
Posted inBusiness
Telkom you @#$” bastards
My last post as an aggrieved Nedbank customer drew a lot of interest and made me, very briefly I admit, almost as popular as Michael Trapido. Encouraged, I offer you Chapter 2 of my small business nightmare: today Telkom cut off my phones without warning. When I finally got through to their call-centre I was […]
Posted inBusiness, Lifestyle, Media
A nightmare called Nedbank
Nedbank will likely deny this till the cows come home, but the truth is they pocketed a large sum from my company 10 days ago and wouldn’t give it back until, in desperation, I asked my journalist wife to rattle their cage. Suddenly, things started to happen. Which raises the question: if you don’t have […]
Posted inMedia, News/Politics
The day Percy pitched me onto the street
I’m pretty damn sure I was the first white person in South Africa to be fired by a black person. I am revealing this little-known truth now in the hope that such credentials might earn me a place at the back of the queue behind those gay, disabled, half-Chinese women standing in line for some […]
Posted inLifestyle
Dead man walking in Shangri-la
For some time now I have been methodically cleaning up my lifestyle as my body has become less forgiving of abuse and more demanding of consideration. There were clear warning signs popping up all over the place: age-spots (free radical damage) on my forehead, bouts of sciatica, tendonitis, fibrositis and other inflammatory markers of a […]
Posted inLifestyle
301 ways to blow your mind
A record 301 new medicines are being developed for mental illnesses in the United States, according to a report released a few days ago. Wow. A record. Neat, especially as the Olympics are around the corner and records are metaphors for human excellence. According to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) who issued […]
Posted inLifestyle, Media
Ritalin: Tik for the middle classes
I received an email this week from a parent who had read an article I wrote a while back on Ritalin, asking whether we are poisoning our children with the stuff or paving a better future for them — though somewhat numbed! Ritalin is a metaphor for everything ugly about modern medicine — a form […]