Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Extra soft and sorbent

Jimmy Carr is on Twitter. He's signed a letter to Guardian, along with Gordon Brown and a few other identities.

The "racism" topic is right there, because we are not an island. Another potent link into discussions of ethnicity in the white man's paradise is this article in Frontline (online magazine, India).

The origin of the "sea of refugees" from Pakistan was described in a British documentary on SBS, originally broadcast in the UK in March.

The sombre fact that Jacqui Smith has resigned over a couple of porn flics is germaine to the debate about the future of Af-Pak, in that powerful democracies can be unsettled by the actions of stupid people.
There are seven live web feeds from Parliament this morning. It'll be very disappointing if QT descends again into crude theatricals.

It's pleasing to note that Colbert has beaten out the "reverse racism" argument over Sonia Sotomayor, but, it's hard to believe, a local harijan has arrived days late to strumpet it as a "poor choice". It's no wonder the web had consigned print to the outhouse.