Thursday, June 08, 2006
Todays News
With little close-season action from my favorite club cafc, with wandering-woman wandering around the islands of Western Ireland and with the usually reliable diamondgeezer otherwise concerned with the vagaries of the east london underground I was forced this morning to look elsewhere for my morning wake-me-up.
Surfing through the news stories today I found something silly about Jeremy Clarkson jeremy clarkson must be destroyed that I assumed was written by a woman till I saw the picture. Sorry, but I find the thoughts of a man not liking, indeed apparently hating Clarkson, to be a bit wierd. Personally I quite like the bloke. He's managed to earn a living doing things things many a man would gladly do for nothing and he fronts a very good TopGear progam thats one of the most entertaining things on TV. Opinionated, overbearing, maybe, but how that can generate such anger is beyond me. Getting upset about a big kid on TV enjoying himself has to be a little ridulous, these people are obviously living in a little world of their own.
All the talk in the article about fuel pollution and global warming somehow got me into the from the wilderness pages and I got into the debate about oil and my current quest, if that is the word, is on trying to find out what "Peak Oil" means. Just give me time, it looks important.
And because I'm reading Distant Voices by Pilger - everyone should be forced once in their life to read Pilger - I found a article by him here regarding an interview he had with an Israeli soldier, a refusenik, and reporting what real life is like for some people.
And finally to really educate myself I turned to the New Statesman to see how their changed format is going and got seriously depressed by reading americas' robot armies. I wonder if anyone can be happy with america after reading such articles. Can it make one pleased to be in the world, can it make people feel more secure knowing that in the future we'll really be safe? I'm afraid that my overwhelming feeling was one of intense dispair for the world and to make me glad I'm in my fifties and not in my youth and its probably the only time I have ever felt that.
Surfing through the news stories today I found something silly about Jeremy Clarkson jeremy clarkson must be destroyed that I assumed was written by a woman till I saw the picture. Sorry, but I find the thoughts of a man not liking, indeed apparently hating Clarkson, to be a bit wierd. Personally I quite like the bloke. He's managed to earn a living doing things things many a man would gladly do for nothing and he fronts a very good TopGear progam thats one of the most entertaining things on TV. Opinionated, overbearing, maybe, but how that can generate such anger is beyond me. Getting upset about a big kid on TV enjoying himself has to be a little ridulous, these people are obviously living in a little world of their own.
All the talk in the article about fuel pollution and global warming somehow got me into the from the wilderness pages and I got into the debate about oil and my current quest, if that is the word, is on trying to find out what "Peak Oil" means. Just give me time, it looks important.
And because I'm reading Distant Voices by Pilger - everyone should be forced once in their life to read Pilger - I found a article by him here regarding an interview he had with an Israeli soldier, a refusenik, and reporting what real life is like for some people.
And finally to really educate myself I turned to the New Statesman to see how their changed format is going and got seriously depressed by reading americas' robot armies. I wonder if anyone can be happy with america after reading such articles. Can it make one pleased to be in the world, can it make people feel more secure knowing that in the future we'll really be safe? I'm afraid that my overwhelming feeling was one of intense dispair for the world and to make me glad I'm in my fifties and not in my youth and its probably the only time I have ever felt that.
// posted by daniel @ 9:54 am 
