Now we know that Mark Sammut is very interested in Sicilian history, so it is reasonable to make the deduction that Mark Sammut wrote a Wikipedia article on himself. This is, of course, somewhat uncool.

Scholars in the past called Aristotle ‘The Philosopher’, didn’t they? I’d take that as a compliment indeed.

You can always sing along to the video the Government will probably use to publicize this new supplementary allowance to ‘children’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbEoRnaOIbs#t=56

Its really good, because it basically sums up where this money will be spent – Nike Shoes, Tattoos, Clubbing, Alcohol and getting Stoned.

Hawn min ghamel hekk bl-istipend tal-JC (cough) ahseb wara.

Terzomondista per excellence. These people just have to feel their stomach turn at anything west, except for the trappings of course.

Came across Alfred Sant’s bijografija Monday evening with Mary Darmanin one the talking heads. She recounted how she wasn’t exactly thrilled at Evaristo Bartolo’s matchmaking efforts; Alfred Sant had just returned from the States, Harvard bla bla, whereas she considered herself more of a radical Marxist. Honest.

So many cultures have colonized Sicily, as they did Malta, that Sicilians are a genetic soup if there ever was one and there is nothing derogatory in stating this. There must be many Sicilians descended from Greeks, Arabs, Latins, Albanians, Normans, South Slavs and any other people who thrived in the Mediterranean.

Europe does not mean the northern or middle-European countries only but this is what many seem to think of when mentioning Europe. Europe is not simply a matter of genetics or even geography: it is a dynamic civilization, a mosaic of cultures distinguished by a set of common denominators which have been exported to the New World, the Pacific and elsewhere. As to “Aryans”, they are a myth and no scientist today uses that infamous word anymore.

The Middle East too has been a crossroad of rich cultures, including European, for centuries if not millennia. The peoples of the Middle East share markers with many “Europeans”. Though many think of north Africans and people in the Middle East as “Arabs” because they speak Arabic and are Muslims, descendants of Arabs — that is people hailing from the Arabian peninsula — are probably a minority.

As to the Maltese, it has been demonstrated that, genetically, they are very close to Sicilians and Calabrians. This is not surprising since all those that colonized Sicily came to Malta too.

“It is all in the genes.”

That is what John Candy said when he played the Dean Andrews character in the film JFK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PSXQJ9jujk

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140305/local/audit-office-investigation-re-ranking-of-bidding-firms-by-minister-reduced-transparency.509389

She also said that this is not a hand out. And John Doe is meant to believe that.

Disgusting.

If the government is to help the poor, and in particular children, then a proper system should be put in place. The vouchers system that the Cottonera head of school had suggested, might not be a bad idea.