Archive for December, 2008
Friday, December 26th, 2008
An Elderly Priest and an Elderly Monk on Sex
In December, one senior priest, Pope Benedict XV1, 81, and one senior monk, the Dalai Lama, 73, have made comments about sex – a subject wise angels fear to tread.
In his end of the year speech to the Vatican, the Pope warned against blurring the distinction between male and female and stated that it could [...]
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
He’s no longer here
Read this report of the UN Climate Talks in Poland earlier this month. It doesn’t need any comment.
“At the UN climate talks in Poznan, Poland, no farewell tears were shed for George Bush, whose rejection of the landmark Kyoto Protocol in 2001 almost destroyed multilateral efforts to roll back global warming.
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
The Sickness of Capitalism
Week in and week, we read of the crisis in capitalism, an ideology used to support big business, power and privilege for the few, economic growth and maximisation of profit on investments .
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Favourite Songs of Bob Dylan
In May 1966, my editor sent me to interview Bob Dylan in the Mayfair Hotel in London. There were about 15 reporters in the room. You can see a clip filmed in the hotel room in the Dylan documentary of the 1966 tour “Eat the Document” on You Tube. I still have the cutting in [...]
