Again, again, my faith in democracy has been squashed like a fly on the windshield of a jumbo jet. Two days ago I was (alright, probably naively) excited about the Greenpeace airplot to obstruct the proposed new runway at Heathrow. Today, the government said it was ploughing ahead with the runway despite the massive outcry [...]
Archive for January 15th, 2009
A dark day
Posted in acclimatizing, tagged greenpeace, heathrow, heathrow third runway, john mcdonnell on January 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
George Bush is leaving the building
Posted in Reading, tagged george bush, jacob weisberg, slate, top 25 bushisms on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…on January 20, and Slate has done us all a favour and collected the top 25 Bushisms of all time. My personal favourites: Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”—Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000 And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this [...]
