Friday, May 20, 2011
Treatment
This post would provide a brief synopsis of my new TV series, in which a man is arrested for a terrible murder the police are almost certain he probably definitely didn't commit. Title: Sub-Prime Suspect.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Greek
This post would complain rather tediously about the loss of general knowledge of the ancient world, after someone came up with the word "nemeses", and someone in Slate wrote: "I was her mentor, and she was my mentee".
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Apple
In this post I wonder how the religionists can grant me free will on the one hand, yet condemn me to Hell on the other for the sins of Adam, who I didn't know from ... himself.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Guilty
In this post I would invite all repressive legislators to prosecute me, because in my 50+ years I have certainly done the stuff you all find so reprehensible, and if I haven't -- if I never got round to it -- I would rather die on your rack than admit the fact and live in the world you would make.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Rights
This post would consider what an "unalienable right" could possibly be, if one of those enumerated, the right to life, can be summarily removed, either by executive order in particular, or by the maintenance of the death penalty in general.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Infinitive
In this post I would chastise myself for my reaction of shock and disdain when a lady on the bus committed a grammatical error on asking the driver if he might allow her to get off, though the bus wasn't at a recognised stop.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Burial
This post would consider the burial at sea of Sir Francis Drake, and how it prevented him from ever being considered a hero to his many followers.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Burqa
In this post I would agree with the anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod* that the burqa is a "symbolic mobile home" for the women who wear it, and that this is, as Jackson Lears is accused of arguing, a "lesser of two evils" argument. However I would also argue that countries which have considered, or brought in, a ban on the burqa have also shown no interest whatsoever in the emancipation of those women, but simply wish to retire the burqa from the public view.
*Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2002. Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others. American Anthropologist 104, no. 3: 783-790.
*Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2002. Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others. American Anthropologist 104, no. 3: 783-790.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Royal
A comparison of claims that the British royal family attracts tourist income with information that the UK is sixth or seventh on the list of tourist destinations, with those in the higher places being mainly republics.
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