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Monthly Archives: September 2007
I can die now
I have been quoted in Language Log. This is like being reviewed in Nature: it involves a demonstration that there are important lacunae in my knowledge of sex. More from the department of the bleeding obvious as it comes in. Continue reading
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Weasel me up
Out they come, dazed and bewlidered,1 from their bunkers to explain what they meant all along. The latest is Sir David Manning, Blair’s ambasador to Washington, who told the New Statesman: “He [Mr Blair] believed the WMD story. It’s not … Continue reading
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A bad film
I am a huge fan of Aki Kaurismäki so the latest film he’s made was a correspondingly large disappointment: Lights in the Dusk is the story of a remarkably stupid and stubborn man who goes to jail rather than betray … Continue reading Continue reading
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Hot from the dept of the Bleeding Obvious
I have grown interested in something called Terror Management Theory, which suggests that people find cultural escapes from the burden of their own mortality; in general they become more attached to their own traditions and more hostile to others. In … Continue reading Continue reading
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An unusual comment problem
An interesting story from the Swedish blogosphere: Carl Bildt, the former Prime Minister, now foreign minister, has a blog. He is in fact a natural blogger, picky, aggressive, articulate and contemptuous of lower beings; and his blog is a real … Continue reading Continue reading
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Getcha getcha kulcha here … Torrent links to every one of Bergman’s films. Found through the blog of a leader writer on SvD: it’s hard to imagine any British paper’s leader writer doing that, or, indeed, any British cabinet minister … Continue reading Continue reading