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War on Christmas 🎄🎄!!

Is there a “War on Christmas”? I don’t believe it!

What’s the matter with “Happy Holidays”? People said “Happy Holidays” when I was little. Nobody got all hostile about it. After all, Christmas and New Year are two holidays, aren’t they? You want to wish people happy for both– or happy whatever they celebrate.

My atheist friends celebrate Christmas. So does my atheist Japanese AutoCad tutor and my Jewish ex-girlfriend. A Muslim mate always gives me a Christmas present. “Holiday” sales are what stores are supposed to have! Are they going to tell people that they’re not allowed to buy for Kwanzaa or Hanukkah? Spring Break or Summer Solstice? Why not, if that’s they want to spend their money on? Or should stores to sell only to Christians? Is that even legal?

People are so ready to take offense. The fundamentalists get offended if you don’t say “Merry Christmas”, while other people get freaked if you even mention the word. I read about some carolers who were turned away from an ice rink where skater Sacha Cohen was going to perform, for fear that their Christian songs would offend her. If they’re going to send away carolers for the sake of a single person, how about at least asking that person if carols upset her? Maybe, like my Jewish ex girlfriend , she’s a big fan of Christmas.

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    Views When the story of Zimbabwe in these years is finally written, I suspect it will not be remembered for what we suffered, but for how lightly we took it. The record will not be one of famine, mismanagement, and squandered opportunities. It will be one of hashtags, punchlines, and endless forwarding. We will not be immortalised as a people crushed under unbearable hardship, but …
  • Pedophiles, Patreons, and the Price of Public Shame
    Views I sit far from the stage where this drama plays out. I watch from a very tiny little town in Zimbabwe. The internet makes distance feel small. A camera, a stream, a hashtag, and a life is shredded. I do not pretend to be an expert. I know what I see. I know what it feels like when a crowd decides a man is …
  • Where the clock ends
    If no one ever died, the word “life” would be meaningless.It would not even exist.We only name something when there is also something it is not.Light means nothing without darkness.Heat means nothing without cold.You only know a thing because you have known its opposite.
  • The Myth Of Infinite Growth
    The tide of optimism about technology has swelled to a roar in the past few years. Every month brings news of a faster chip, a smarter machine or a grand vision of AI solving our problems.  The prevailing creed assumes innovation has no bounds, and that each breakthrough simply opens new frontiers.  But this bright faith in endless growth collides with a more sober reality.  …
  • Piece of Shit
    Some days I wake up and think,“Damn, I might be the problem.” Not in a villain arc kind of way, no. Just in that quiet, disappointing way you forget to reply to someone who loves you.Or you said you’d change, and didn’t.Or you left your undried laundry in the wardrobe for three days and now it smells like betrayal. I’m not evil. Just… inconsistent.A decent …
  • FACT CHECK: Did South African Police Boss Label ZANU PF an International Criminal Organization?
    Claim: An article published by ZimEye on July 26, 2025, alleges that General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, Provincial Police Commissioner for KwaZulu-Natal, accused Zimbabwe’s ruling party, ZANU PF, of being an “international criminal organization” in an official report submitted to South Africa’s President. Assessment: There is no verifiable evidence that General Mkhwanazi made such a statement or submitted a report making these claims. No other credible news …
  • How Much Of My Life Is Truly Mine?
    I ask myself this a lot. Some days, I feel like I’m just watching my life happen. Like I’m a passenger, not the one driving. I wake up each morning to the same routine. Not because I want to, but because I have to. Wake up, work, worry. There’s always something. Many bills, food, family problems. Everything needs attention. Everything costs money.
  • Underpaid
    I send invoices like prayers.Gentle. Hopeful. Read at 3:14am and never replied to. They say freelancing is freedom.Yeah  the kind of freedom where you’re free to starve creatively.Free to chase clients like you’re the debt collector and the therapist.Free to do five people’s jobs for the price of exposure and a thank-you emoji.
  • Blank Page
    The page isn’t really blank.It’s just staring at me.Judging me.Waiting for brilliance I swore I had at 2am but can’t find now that the sun’s up and my coffee’s gone cold.
  • Travel Plans
    What are your future travel plans? I hadn’t really thought about it, to be honest.Travel felt like something other people planned. I was just surviving deadlines. Then one night, I found this Czech YouTuber. No fake influencer energy. Just raw clips of daily life in Prague—trams, moody streets, bread that looks like it means something.Now I want to go. Not for tourist spots. I just …
  • She Is the Head of HR and She Knew Exactly What She Was Doing.
    It takes a particular kind of cunning to navigate the highest tiers of corporate America—not just ambition, but the capacity to mold the perception of your presence, to exude both authority and discretion, power and plausible deniability. That, more than anything else, is the currency of Human Resources at the executive level. When the Coldplay kiss-cam scandal exploded online—two executives from the same company caught …
  • Is This Health Justice or State Overreach?
    In the swiftly evolving drama of Zimbabwean healthcare, a new bill in Parliament has stirred both hope and alarm. The Medical Services Amendment Bill, championed by Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, seeks to align private hospital practices with constitutional guarantees. It empowers the health minister to cap fees, regulate pricing, and mandates that private institutions admit and stabilize emergency patients for at least …
  • The Real Truth They Don’t Want You To Know: Why Property Is So Expensive In Zimbabwe
    I didn’t plan to write this. But sometimes an article burrows into your thoughts and refuses to let go. That’s what happened when I stumbled across a piece online titled “Why Are Properties So Pricey in Zimbabwe? Here Are 8 Reasons” published on 9 June, 2025, by NewZWire. It was informative, well-structured, and made a compelling case around factors like land shortages, inflation, and the …
  • Women, Water, and the Weight of Sustainability
    Every day, in villages across Zimbabwe and beyond, a familiar figure appears: women and girls carrying heavy jerrycans under the sun, walking for kilometres to fetch water. They bend, stoop, and trudge, often returning home exhausted, yet their labour is seldom honoured. This image, so ordinary that it fades into the landscape is a vivid testament to how unsustainable policies weigh most heavily on those …
  • WhatsApp’s New Feature Might Be a Gift to Con Artists
    There is a seductive appeal to the word “privacy.” It conjures images of safety, control, and autonomy. It suggests a world in which one can participate without being exposed, speak without being watched, and interact without being tracked. So it’s no surprise that the tech world is constantly dressing its new features in the garments of privacy. But beneath the PR-friendly lingo, some of these …
  • What the Musk–Trump Feud Tells Us About the Future of Power
    There was a time when billionaires stayed in boardrooms and presidents stayed on podiums. Now, their worlds have fused into one volatile theatre. Over the past fortnight or so, a dramatic and very public fallout has erupted between Elon Musk (billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX) and Donald Trump, the recently re-elected president of the United States. It is vulgar, bizarre, and deeply instructive. And …
  • Sacrifices
    What sacrifices have you made in life? Oh, sacrifices? You want to talk about sacrifices? I’ve bartered sleep like a desperate trader at a collapsing market: swapped it for deadlines, for dreams, for defiance. I’ve sat in rooms where my silence was safer than the truth but still chose to speak. Lost friends over convictions. Lost time over causes. Lost faith in systems that promised …
  • The War In Sudan Is Still Happening And The World Has Moved On
    Somewhere between the latest tech layoffs, celebrity gossip, and viral TikToks about how to season your trauma with lavender oil and affirmations, a war is still raging in Sudan. Yes, still. Not metaphorically. Not in the abstract. Real bombs, real bodies, real cities reduced to skeletal rubble. Real people, over 13 million of them fleeing from homes that once smelled of spice and promise. But …
  • Champions
    A true champion is someone that sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching. Hairy. Winning is great sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to take losses. Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better.  To me, a peanut butter sandwich is the […] Champions
  • We Built God Out of Fear, Then Forgot the Blueprint
    We built God out of fear. Not love. Not peace. Not cosmic order. Fear. Crude, elemental, and deeply human.
  • Why I Disagree With Nelson Mandela
    What public figure do you disagree with the most? There are few figures in modern history as globally revered as Nelson Mandela. His story has become mythic. 27 years in prison followed by a peaceful transition to democracy, crowned by his magnanimous embrace of those who once dehumanized him. Statues, street names, and documentary reels ensure that his image radiates eternal light. And yet, as …
  • Small Talk? I’d Rather Walk on Legos
    There’s a special kind of pain that comes from stepping on a Lego. It’s sharp, unexpected, and deeply personal. Kind of like being asked, “So, what are you up to these days?” by someone you barely know, in the middle of a crowded bank queue.
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