Spare a pair of panties for peace. Send them to the nearest embassy of Myanmar. Why panties? There’s a full explanation here http://leahbowe.com/deathpower/2007/11/02/panty-protest-against-burmese-government/.

I’ve been away from the internets and hadn’t seen that this story had received a bit o...

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Two weeks ago I bookmarked this entirely vacuous web page from something called Independent Catholic News.¹ For all that time it gnawed vaguely at me. I felt I ought to respond. But why bother. They’re not listening. And yet, all it takes is for good people to do nothing ...

It’s about yet ano...

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Ah, the glamour of life in the Eternal City. A friend had tickets for a screening that was part of the Rome Festival of Cinema, for 10.30 on a Saturday night. Of course one didn't ask “what for?”. My aversion to horror movies being well known, it wouldn’t have been one of them. But had someone told...

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I Googled “+Ahmadinejad +Watson” and was pretty astounded to find almost nothing. Doing the same on Blogsearch¹ provided three items.

• [Undemocracy in America] http://undemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/10/ahmadinejad-1-watson-0.html
• Wired Blog Network, and
• Sweetness and Light

All make the...

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I’m late reporting on George Clooney’s Michael Clayton because it hasn’t been easy to work out what to say, beyond the banal “one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long, long time”. The script plays with time beautifully, with the flashback -- four days earlier -- spooling quietly on so that thing...

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