Welsh Mountains & TV shows crossing the pond
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Here are some hills and sheep from when we were driving round Wales the other week. That’s snow on the top of that mountain. Beautiful, and not as cold or distant as Scotland (although I can actually see myself becoming enamoured of Scotland next, in my mature age, which will be something of a miracle- [...]
They think it’s all over
Thursday, October 16th, 2008I’m very much liking what Chris Yeh has to say about the campaign; intelligent, balanced, insightful. I have been predicting Obama would win since April 12th 2007. On January 7th this year, I said it again, noting that I didn’t think it would make much difference who was in charge anyway. Which shows how random [...]
global nail shortage?
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Briefly updating my post below: see Nancy Rommelman for a great cartoon with one projected outcome of wrongheaded not giving up, plus insightful notes on further weirdo political nonsense of the sort that weirdo politicians engage in.
Curioser and curioser.
on not giving up
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008There is an old-school popular belief that giving up is always the wrong thing to do. But it’s simplistic, as old-school ideas generally are. The truth is, giving up is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. It’s right when you’ve lost, when you’re trying to do something wrong, or as I’m fond of saying, when the [...]
