Wales crashed out of the Rugby World Cup yesterday. They fought so hard and had the lead at one point but Fiji was just too good. Tim and I are devastated. I nearly cried at the end.
Archive of entries posted on September 2007
Why are we so special?
Just reading John Edwards’s contribution to Foreign Affairs this month. Each presidential candidate over the next year will set out his/her vision for American foreign policy under his/her presidency. Edwards says
…we can reclaim our historic role as a moral leader of the world…
We must do everything in our power to reclaim the United States’ historic [...]
I bet you do
Why Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was even asked to speak at such a prestigious university as Columbia is beyond me but, the fact of the matter is, he was and he did. As usual he put his great big foot in his great big mouth and said Iran does not have homosexuals.
Hey, pssst, Mahmoudie, I [...]
Times like this I’m sorry to be a southerner
I’m not going to comment on the Jena 6 ordeal. What I am going to comment on is this idiotic, stupid, moronic (every other word synonymous with these one can think of) actions of two individuals (thankfully) arrested yesterday during the march in Jena, Louisiana. Two men aged 18 and 16 were arrested for driving [...]
Brown gets it right
Hurrah for Prime Minister Gordon Brown for standing up to Zimbabwean President horribilis Robert Mugabe. The EU has imposed a travel ban on the tyrant in as an act of condemnation of the way he governs. Now the EU wants to have an African summit with every President from the continent attending, including Mugabe. Brown [...]
May have been a joke, but still not right
Update on yesterday’s post about the student tasered at a John Kerry event in Florida. Rumour is this may have been a stunt because the person involved has a website with prank videos and other such matter. I have to admit that when I watched it I found his ‘ow, ow, ow’ slightly put on. [...]
Appropriate use of force, my ass
I found this video on CNN today. I can’t remember how to embed video here plus CNN may have a copyright thing anyway so just view the page and article to see it. This poor University of Florida student was tasered at a John Kerry Q&A. The argument that his free speech was stifled holds [...]
For the vegetarian who misses bacon
Trowling through my friend Meghan’s blog (Rumination Station in the right-hand column) and came across this: Bacon Salt.
My friend Mendy is a veggie but she says the one thing she misses the most is bacon. I sent her this link in an email and thought I’d share it with you all as well. That’s right, [...]
Why are married people so great?
News that in my home state of Arkansas they are trying to get a law in effect that will keep all co-habiting (i.e. not married) couples whether they be gay or straight from fostering or adopting children. John Brummett, columnist extraordinaire, wrote a very good opinion piece about this.
Trying to keep gay couples from adopting [...]
A hornet’s nest of trouble
Report today from a leading think tank, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (whom I would kill to work for in a research capacity), that Al-Qaida has not been affected by the so-called war on terror as much as was intended. I think most intelligent people made that assumption 4-5 years ago when the US went [...]