Posted in amerika, belief, christianity, cliques, enmity, establishment, friends, geography, here, location, love, metaphor, organisations, people, politics, pragmatism, race, responsibility, society, understanding on June 1st, 2010 1 Comment »
My country has no flag. Its has no national anthem, although some of its citizens are partial to folk music and Morris dancing. No seething, populous crowds cheer my country on, with loud or incoherent cries in the street. Its citizens do not rally round meaningless symbols and engineer fake outrage at nonexistent bans, nor [...]
Posted in belief, christianity, comparative_religion, cultural, dickheads, education, emotions, establishment, fear, lectures, lies, love, opinion, people, person, politics, pragmatism, rants, responsibility, society, truth, understanding on February 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Current affairs abound in dichotomies, real and imagined. The past few days have taught me that right this news-second there are two people in this great nation of ours: those who are in an almighty froth over Rowan Williams’ recent speech, and those who have actually read it.
… The secular lawyer needs to know where [...]
Posted in belief, christianity, comparative_religion, druid, history, humanities, media, nu-media, time, understanding, wisdom_of_groups on March 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
It’s almost a feature of Wikipedia, rather than a bug, that any articles that aren’t about Perl or Tolkien tend to present all the facts to hand, often with embarrassing “citation needed” links besides anything for which they don’t have an expression on their CD, while missing the broad narrative entirely. I say it’s [...]
