Entries from January 2007
Seattle in the News! II!
WaPo - Suicide jumps off city bridge upset witnesses
A bridge in Seattle is becoming hazardous to the mental health of the dot-com employees and other office workers below, who keep seeing people jump to their deaths from the span. Thirty-nine people during the past decade have committed suicide off the […]
Categories: People and Current Events
Democrats Achieve Dialogue With Iran
Hell, if that’s what they meant, we could’ve done that years ago. I thought they meant something, you know, constructive.
Power Line - Nice Going, John
LGF - John F. Kerry: Big in Tehran
Kerry and Nancy Pelosi are mentioned.
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Blooming Charities
The Sunday Times - Let us have fudge, hope and charity, by Minette Marrin
Let a hundred flowers bloom, Chairman Mao once said to China’s repressed intellectuals, inviting diverse ideas. Sure enough, when the intellectuals obliged, Mao ruthlessly mowed them all down. Our rulers do not believe in diversity either, although they are constantly […]
Categories: People and Current Events
Athletic Elephants
The Sunday Times - We can still win the Olympics … by hacking it back to size Simon Jenkins
Good for reflecting upon why one should never ask the government to do anything.
There’s some kerfuffle going on here about the Key Arena, where the basketball team, the Sonics, play, at the Seattle Center, which is where the […]
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Community Killing Commuting
The Times - Squashed, stressed, weary. Twice a day. Why? by Janice Turner The absurdity of commuting
There is something heroic about commuters, their stoicism, sacrifice and lack of complaint, as they scrape ice off the windscreen on a dark morning and leave the town they barely know, where they have few friends, because they […]
Categories: People and Current Events
More Teddy Stories!
The Times - Dire echoes of a right Royal gaffe. History Notebook by Graham Stewart
Ségolène Royal, the French Socialist presidential candidate, has been forced to clarify what she meant after appearing to call for Quebec’s “freedom”. Understandably taken aback, the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, has reminded her that it is “highly […]
Categories: History
Someday I’d Like You People To Write Like This About Me
Master Philo’s Debut
Little Lump of Malignity
Telegraph - Coleridge’s daughter hid her poetic passions
A British academic has discovered 120 unknown poems by Sara Coleridge at a university in Texas which, he says, rank her as a significant poet. Though Dr Peter Swaab does not make extravagent claims for the Lake Poet’s daughter – he ranks her […]
Categories: Art and Literature
To Ruminate Over as You Open Your W-2s
The Joy of Curmudgeonry - Fewtril #157
Of the misfortunes that he feels must come, Man prefers a certain regularity to an uncertain frequency and magnitude. Nothing shows this more clearly than that since the earliest times he has preferred to be taxed rather than robbed.
Categories: Politics
The UN Finds a Use For the Jooos
LGF - UN Approves Resolution Condemning Holocaust Denial
The United Nations General Assembly has unanimously approved a resolution condemning Holocaust denial. Unanimously except for Iran, of course. (Although I’d wager that several other OIC countries would have objected too, if they thought they could avoid the political fallout.)
Hell, denying the Holocaust […]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Once Again, the Brits Demonstrate That the Americans Have a Real Problem &c
Telegraph - White teenagers guilty of racist murder
Mohammad Parvaiz, 42, [father of three,] was stoned and battered to death when he inadvertently became caught up in a dispute between neighbours. He was lured to an isolated dead-end where he was dragged from his cab and set upon by the gang […]
Categories: People and Current Events
History: The Balm for All (Political) Ills
The Telegraph - Teach history, and good citizenship will follow
There is a simpler mechanism at hand. The teaching of history in our schools is, unaccountably, not compulsory after the age of 14. If it was, there would be no need for extra instruction in citizenship. It is through the teaching of history that […]
Categories: History
The CofE’s Renewed Devotion to Fasting, Abstinence, and Penance in Commemoration of Christ’s Forty Days in the Wilderness
Times2 - Let there be low-energy light during Lent, by Jane Shilling
So what do the Archbishops propose as their Lenten initiative? Well, from this week, you can text the word “Lent” to 64343 and receive a daily suggestion for a Good Deed, beginning on February 19, until Easter Monday, April 9. Sample suggestions […]
Categories: People and Current Events
Woah Gerry!
I, uh, don’t think he much likes ol’ Hil.
The Times - The vaulting ambition of America’s Lady Macbeth, by Gerard Baker Hillary Clinton’s shameless political reconstructive surgery
There are many reasons people think Mrs Clinton will not be elected president. She lacks warmth; she is too polarising a figure; the American people don’t want to […]
Categories: Politics
