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Saturday, April 30, 2005
The native who never left home
In Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror, Mahmood Mamdani notes the founding morality of the US in viewing the rights of settlers above those of the Native Americans whose land they stole. He then draws parallels with Liberia, Israel, Vietnam and now Iraq, in the way that the rights of an 'oppressed' minority are upheld over those of the local people.
Friday, April 29, 2005
Grumpy old men on yachts
What makes you grumpy? On Life Matters today, this grump on a yacht in the Whitsunday Islands (Queensland, Australia) finds time between beers to complain about "essential oils".
The UK pet vote
While the vote has been denied to British armed forces in Iraq, this guy on the Jeremy Vine Show has managed to register his rabbit and guinea pig.
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Driving on wood
Down in St. Clair Springs, Alabama, Wayne Keith's three-quarter-ton pickup is powered almost entirely by wood. He talks to Julie-Anne Finlay on the CBC's As It Happens.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Benedict the Traitor
Sophie Peterson in England named her son Benedict after the new Pope, but Sophie's sister Emma lives in North Carolina and told her that Benedict is a traitor's name! Sue Cook finds out why from Dr. Peter Thompson, lecturer in Early American History at Oxford University on BBC Radio 4's Making History
Monday, April 25, 2005
Age shall not weary them
Dawn services at Tobruk and Hellfire Pass marked the 90th anniversary of the ill-fated Gallipoli landing, while at home in Australia just one last World War I Digger marched - in Perth, 107-year-old Peter Casserly, hunched and frail, wearing a slouch hat and with a crocheted rug draped over his knees. From the ABC's PM
A licence to cold-call
Thousands of Scots received a message from Sir Sean Connery this week, telling them to vote SNP. The Liberal Democrats want the Nationalists fined for cold-calling. From the Jeremy Vine Show.Sunday, April 24, 2005
Stock market still too high
New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera says despite sinking stock prices, they are still overvalued. He talks to Scott Simon on NPR's Weekend Edition.
Don't you worry about Joh
So, he's dead at last, gone to stay in the great Bellevue Hotel in the sky that he murdered, perhaps. Here some vintage Joh recorded during the Fitzgerald enquiry, from Terry Lane's The National Interest on the ABC.