I could not believe my years and eyes, sitting in front of my TV and watching one of the local political shows on Channel Two, during which my favorite political observer, analyst and commentator Ramaz Sakvarelidze — a certified psychologist into the bargain — unabashedly and pronouncedly stated that the Georgian government has long been suffering from an utter absence of intellect. Wow! I have never heard before such a precise description of our governing style. The author of this daring but fairly balanced description has definitely hit the bull’s eye! The description deserves our attention because it sounds true and was presented to our public with a huge pain in the heart – I noticed that pain in his manner of speaking and the doleful expression in his eyes.

We the Georgians love venting our political feelings in the street. A street-oriented political life is what makes us feel alive and kicking. Street has its unequaled charm and magic, and power too, used when political concerns and pains have to be gotten off our aching chests. As a matter of fact, we as a nation are politically more natural in the open air than indoors. We are suffocating inside an edifice even if its air is conditioned. We breathe better in the street – the political oxygen is better felt and taken in there. Streets make us feel more liberated where democracy seems healthier and more feasible. Streets are free from governmental duress, cultural conscience, social restrictions, economic plight, political inequity and intellectual responsibility.

We are used to handling minor social rifts as well as major political chasms in Georgia, but this does not mean that we are handling them right.

Using the word ‘abortion’ has always been considered an indecorous turn of the tongue in this culture: good moms and dads would feel uncomfortable, for instance, if their well-bread kids used this ‘impolite’ word publicly; a prim and prudish teacher would tell off a certain loutish student provided the word was used freely when at school; a lady of self-respect would goggle her eyes in indignation at an uncouth admirer if the unfortunate guy blurted out that ‘swearword’ incidentally. Why? Was there something so terribly unpleasant about the word? Could be, but no longer is this the case in Georgia! This recent Easter, Georgia started not only using the word publicly and unreservedly, but has embarked on discussing the abortion extensively.

Lado Gudiashvili is the 20th century eminent Georgian painter. He is this Nation’s pride and wealth, whose outstanding legacy is lovingly praised by the entire contemporary Georgia and treasured in our hearts and minds forever.

All my friends and relatives know that McDonald’s is not my favorite place to have my appetite quenched at because fast food in general is not what I would die for.

Level of education as such, including its content and quality, always leaves a lot to desire whenever and wherever in the world this education is taking place. Education is never enough and it is never satisfactory, never completely up to the point and never fully compatible with the requirements of time.

Most of the tools for making money have already been invented by man. Probably! Well, some of these tools come and go, but some are so strong and proven that they persistently stay in place almost for good. Cooperatives make exactly this kind of an instrument for generating income. Using the now obsolescent Soviet type of vocabulary, it was called CEKAVSHIRI in the Georgian language, meaning Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives.

The Magna Carta of England of 1215 proclaimed certain liberties, and emphasized that the king could no longer rule arbitrarily.