I Have So Many Windows Open Right Now But Absolutely Zilch Attention Span
So, it’s quick links time!
Telegraph Blogs – Daniel Hannan: The Internet is dragging Britain away from Europe and towards the Anglosphere
Brett McS sent me this one within moments of me reading an excerpt from it in The Corner. It’s an interesting and perhaps obvious point, though I think perhaps a little optimistic. And I’m not [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Two Annoying Hollywood Stars Do Top Gear
Well, Cameron Diaz is annoying. Tom Cruise is weird. But mostly he’s weird because he should be so very good. But then he’s weird and that makes him weirder. But when he’s on, he’s very good. Anyway it’s nice to hear this:
The Sunday Times – Jeremy Clarkson talks cars, fighter jets and biscuits with Hollywood [...]
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Journalists Struggling to Cope With This “Democratic” Modern Age
Telegraph – Raoul Moat and the unacceptable face of Facebook
In David Cameron’s clash with Facebook we can see the key cultural question of our time, says Jenny McCartney
So, she goes from describing the elitist but responsible days of old journalism, where:
Letters to newspapers that were full of violent views, or just [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
The Stuff You Find in Autoblog…
Autoblog – Report: Former Audi employee convicted Nazi war criminal
Yeesh.
Categories: War and Peace
On North Korea and Relative Harms
The Times – Sometimes peace does more damage than war
The other point is this. At the end of the Korean War, we agreed that the division of Korea should persist. Despite North Korea’s aggression — including blatant acts of war, including the possession of nuclear weapons — the West does not plan military [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Poor Old Hitchens
Announced he has throat cancer today and has to cut short his book tour to have chemo on his esophagus. But anyway, the news had a link to this review of his memoirs* (which he was on tour promoting), leading with:
In 1973, at the age of 24, Christopher Hitchens was called to Athens, [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
On Jewish Cemeteries, Mainly
I’m catching up on my Macleans, and find Mr Optimist outside a Jewish cemetery in Tangiers, full of talk of sanctity from the Moroccan government and the groundskeeper’s laundry…
Macleans – Mark Steyn: The lesson of a Jewish cemetery
By 2005, there were fewer than 150 Jews in Tangiers, almost all of them very old. [...]
Categories: History
Some Refuge
The Globe & Mail – The immigration debate we don’t want to have Aqsa’s murder raises some extremely troubling questions about integration, by Margaret Wente
The Parvez family history is not uncommon. Aqsa’s father and her oldest brother arrived in Canada in 1999 as refugees from Pakistan. In those days, it was easy to buy [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Aussie Angels
AP:
SYDNEY — In those bleak moments when the lost souls stood atop the cliff, wondering whether to jump, the sound of the wind and the waves was broken by a soft voice. “Why don’t you come and have a cup of tea?” the stranger would ask. And when they turned to him, his [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Northern Ireland Again
Yikes:
The Sunday Times – Return to Bloody Sunday The authors investigated the shootings for The Sunday Times. They reveal how their findings became pivotal to the inquiry. Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson
On Tuesday at 8am, a small band of lawyers, among them Britain’s best and brightest, will enter the Guildhall in Londonderry under what [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXIV
On Using “Pimp” As a Verb
I cautioned a guy at work the other day (who’s first language isn’t English (not that you’d notice, it’s so good)) against using “pimp” as a verb, as in “pimp my ride” (except “ride” was something more relevant to where I work). I said it was a bit …negative. I’m feeling very righteous (and relieved) [...]
Categories: Entertainment
I Just Bought a Car!
Yesterday Peter bought me a nice sensible station wagon (wagen!), with a 6-disc changer, heated seats, a connection for the iPod (charges, too!), and a diesel engine (be green!). It’s a VW Jetta Sportwagen, and in the corner of the showroom they have a 1947 green Beetle, and the sign says that it’s the most [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Anti-Racism: The 21st Century’s Source of Violence
(The photo accompanying this article is a total head-badwordbeginninginf.)
I saw a few headlines roll by about this story about Roy Amor, but I never actually saw a full account until now:
Macleans (4.22) – Don’t joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon MARK STEYN: Britons have shown a surprising enthusiasm for informing on their fellow citizens
Six weeks ago, [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Dr Leith Penny, of Westminster Council, Would Like to Apologise
Evening Standard – Workmen destroy ancient Paddington tombs
Workmen have desecrated an 18th century burial ground by destroying scores of ancient tombs, some of which belonged to children. The men were repairing a wall in St Mary’s churchyard at Paddington Green and dug up the garden above the cemetery. [...]
Categories: History
