Some more sad news Edward Woodward's BBC Obituary

I mentioned Breaker Morant just recently elsewhere. Callan seems to have branded itself into a generation, too. Glad now DVD releases are available. The Wicker Man has left quite an impact as well. Saw him only a couple of weeks ago, doing a good job in a recent Britcrime TV drama. Only one I can ( Read more... )

Altho' this Daily Mail article, linked at end, has a different main subject - starting with Nicolas Sarkozy's confused recollection of his part in the fall of the Berlin Wall & continuing with general reflections on that event & its 20th Anniversary - there was a background in an accompanying picture that I found striking, disturbing &, ( Read more... )

I AM the people-the mob-the crowd-the mass ( Read more... )

When the human world & its damage to itself & its planet gets too much, sometimes looking at a bigger picture can distract us from our distress & despair. (NB: Need better, official links for these two.)

Mysterious Mercury reveals more surface secrets to Messenger spacecraftThe Messenger team were hoping to take close-up pictures of other features ( Read more... )

An odd thing I discovered while searching for details of a quite different nursery song for someone.
Nursery Antiquities, from Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales by James Orchard Halliwell"The following has been traced to the time of Henry VI., a singular doggerel, the joke of which consists in saying it so quickly that it cannot be told whether it ( Read more... )

A report from the music arena in Los Angeles that has been turned into a makeshift medical centre
The Independent (UK)
Guy Adams
Saturday, 15 August 2009The brutal truth about America’s healthcare: … Some of these Americans had walked miles simply to have their blood pressure checked, some had slept in their cars in the hope of getting an eye-test ( Read more... )

SonnetIf I should die some night and never see ( Read more... )

Not putting much here right now. Haven't given up. Life goes on, so far.

One quote from a recent American Terrorist story jumped out. From my local paper's report (‘Gunman says murder of abortion doctors was 'justified'’), via Associated Press, also in variations from several sources"The anti-tax stuff came first, and then it grew and grew," said Lindsey Roeder … he became involved with the Freemen movement, an anti- ( Read more... )

From comments on a review at Rixosous of The Mayor of Castro Street, by Randy Shilts.Today is the 30th anniversary of the White Night Riots, which occurred when Dan White was given a ludicrously low sentence for the murders of Harvey Milk and George Moscone ( Read more... )