Miscellaneous pre-Christmas roundup
Blogging will probably be light over the Christmas/New Year period. As the media circus folds its big tents, and the clowns wipe off their greasepaint, sideshows like the Cuckoo must follow suit. I want to wish my readers - both of you - a Merry Christmas, and I want to record my gratitude to two bloggers of inspiration - Tim Blair and Currency Lad - who added me to their blogrolls this year.
In unrelated miscellany:
Perhaps you saw Kofi Annan losing it when asked a 'cheeky' question by a journalist. (Kofi is able to get angry without losing his cool, a talent I wish I possessed.) The question - of inconsistent accounts given by Annan about various matters, including the dodgy importation of a luxury car by his son Cujo, er, I mean Kojo - was hardly in the same league as the kind of inane, hostile and often openly contemptuous questioning that mere leaders of elected governments like George Bush and John Howard are regularly subjected to, but Kofi made clear he was above such things.
Today's Age actually gives away a sheet of Michael Leunig 'Christmas' wrapping paper. Good. I've got some fish heads at home.
I was intrigued to hear, in coverage of the New York transit strike, a transit union official refer to future, hypothetical union members - on whose behalf he claimed to be striking - as "unborn members". Well, if Democrats can vote after death, they should be able to strike before birth.
Last night's SBS bulletin covered the Saddam trial at length (SBS has stopped transcribing its TV bulletins, so no link). Naturally they were keeping an open mind as to whether he had been tortured, as he claims. They were careful to remind us of the 'rough handling' he received when first captured (news to me). They also showed the well-known footage of his medical examination - brutal! - and reminded us of the 'outrage' which this atrocity had sparked around the world. (The medics probably even used one of those yucky wooden tongue depressors - oh, the humanity!) To cap it off, they showed the latest court broadcast footage of Saddy breaking into yet another of his irrelevant free-form rants, and having the sound - quite properly - cut. Not allowing him to rant on uninterrupted is, of course, a gross breach of his human rights, and the journalist who prepared the report was careful to point out that the company which runs this courtroom TV service...is American!
Blogging will probably be light over the Christmas/New Year period. As the media circus folds its big tents, and the clowns wipe off their greasepaint, sideshows like the Cuckoo must follow suit. I want to wish my readers - both of you - a Merry Christmas, and I want to record my gratitude to two bloggers of inspiration - Tim Blair and Currency Lad - who added me to their blogrolls this year.
In unrelated miscellany:
Perhaps you saw Kofi Annan losing it when asked a 'cheeky' question by a journalist. (Kofi is able to get angry without losing his cool, a talent I wish I possessed.) The question - of inconsistent accounts given by Annan about various matters, including the dodgy importation of a luxury car by his son Cujo, er, I mean Kojo - was hardly in the same league as the kind of inane, hostile and often openly contemptuous questioning that mere leaders of elected governments like George Bush and John Howard are regularly subjected to, but Kofi made clear he was above such things.
Today's Age actually gives away a sheet of Michael Leunig 'Christmas' wrapping paper. Good. I've got some fish heads at home.
I was intrigued to hear, in coverage of the New York transit strike, a transit union official refer to future, hypothetical union members - on whose behalf he claimed to be striking - as "unborn members". Well, if Democrats can vote after death, they should be able to strike before birth.
Last night's SBS bulletin covered the Saddam trial at length (SBS has stopped transcribing its TV bulletins, so no link). Naturally they were keeping an open mind as to whether he had been tortured, as he claims. They were careful to remind us of the 'rough handling' he received when first captured (news to me). They also showed the well-known footage of his medical examination - brutal! - and reminded us of the 'outrage' which this atrocity had sparked around the world. (The medics probably even used one of those yucky wooden tongue depressors - oh, the humanity!) To cap it off, they showed the latest court broadcast footage of Saddy breaking into yet another of his irrelevant free-form rants, and having the sound - quite properly - cut. Not allowing him to rant on uninterrupted is, of course, a gross breach of his human rights, and the journalist who prepared the report was careful to point out that the company which runs this courtroom TV service...is American!
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