October 2006
(13th October 2006)
First the Nobels give the literature prize to Orhan Pamuk who, alright, I've never read (I started reading My Name is Red but got bored), but who is A Liberal Force for Good (Margaret Attwood says so). And now they give the peace prize to something good, instead of to a Finnish ex-prime minister. The Grameen Bank is excellent. Money and self-improvement is underrated ...
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(12th October 2006)
I have been transcribing many interviews about shit in China. Between transcribing, tearing my hair out for not having asked many obvious questions, and procrastinating intensely, there has been no space in my head for this.
Besides that, I have been walking, and not for money. On Saturday, in the company of tomdr ...
(5th October 2006)
From Slate, a summary of Bob Woodward's new book State of Denial, which includes war haiku by senior military intelligence official Colonel Steve Rotkoff. After the invasion of Iraq, Rotkoff wrote this one:
Where is WMD?What a kick if he has noneSorry about that
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(5th October 2006)
I have been wondering lately whether the £123 licence fee I pay for the privilege of watching the BBC is worth it. Mostly, BBC TV is no better than that of commercial channels. Radio 4 may be worth it, but it's not a radio licence fee, is it.
But at the moment there's a programme that's making me wonder. BBC Two, Wednesday night at 9pm. ...