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Bernard Allen

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Bernard Allen is passionate about justice, logic, humour, and the arts.

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Would Iron Man have been half as much fun as an environmentalist?

Bernard Allen by Bernard Allen 9 July 200912 August 2009

I missed Iron Man when it was on cinema in SA. I’m not sure why, considering how alluring a trailer with Black Sabbath blaring and explosions flashing across the screen can be. Perhaps I’d already blown my time and money budget on some of those terribly trashy films they show at the Cinema Nouveau. You […]

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Kommetjie whales: Did emotion trump logic?

Bernard Allen by Bernard Allen 3 June 200912 August 2009

I was deeply moved as much as the next animal lover by the recent whale beaching in Kommetjie. As a diver, general marine enthusiast and sort of person who frequently daydreams about swimming with dolphins, seeing those graceful giants of the ocean dying in agony in such large numbers is certainly not my idea of […]

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