Tag Archives: America

The death of Troy Davis

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

Yesterday, I joined a bandwagon, protesting the imminent execution of Troy Davis. Just because there was a bandwagon doesn’t make the cause right. But it doesn’t make it wrong either. I don’t know whether Troy Davis was innocent. All I … Continue reading →

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A trip to the Pacific Coast

Posted on February 8, 2009 by

  I spent most of the day yesterday in transit between Cork and San Francisco. It was a relatively uneventful flight: reading about the Afghan quagmire in Newsweek, watching a pretty good Leo de Caprio movie (Body of Lies), getting … Continue reading →

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So long, Dr. Strangelove

Posted on January 22, 2009 by

I was originally going to post a snarky message comparing the ex-VP to Peter Seller’s comic creation, but then I saw this photo and realised that what I was trying to do wasn’t really that funny.  What I see instead … Continue reading →

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He can't do everything

Posted on January 21, 2009 by

  Some time ago, our CEO, a well known and incredibly successful and charismatic man, addressed his employees via a video link to talk about how the company was doing overall. He talked about the future, and the successes of … Continue reading →

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It's Monday

Posted on January 19, 2009 by

Here’s something to kick start this cold, cold week (gratuitously stolen from Compu-Diva). One sunny day in January, 2009 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke … Continue reading →

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In America on a historic day

Posted on November 5, 2008 by

I have the happy fortune to be in California at the moment to witness a piece of history. The excitement all day was palpable. I was consulting my iPhone all evening as the results started to flow through. Then, sooner … Continue reading →

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The decline of the American Right?

Posted on October 29, 2008 by

Like most people around the world, I am absolutely hooked on the upcoming American presidential election. It seems to me as if history is being played out in front of our eyes. It’s my belief that, with the now almost … Continue reading →

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The world outside the window

Posted on January 6, 2008 by

I got to see CBS Evening News last night. It featured a lot of coverage of the Iowa Caucus and the snowstorms on the US west coast. At the end of the program was a longish feature on a 7 … Continue reading →

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One nation under George

Posted on April 25, 2007 by

Semantic Drift posted an article from Salon magazine about how the Bush Administration has been hiring graduates from the ultra-conservative Regent College, founded by Pat Robertson. “U.S. News and World Report, which does the definitive ranking of colleges, lists Regent … Continue reading →

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A tragedy in the wilderness

Posted on December 8, 2006 by

This story, concerning the fate of the senior editor of the CNET portal in the US is very tragic and very moving. What that young family went through in that last week in the Oregon forests is unthinkable. “They stayed … Continue reading →

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