OK. It’s clear that Cherie Blair has behaved foolishly in getting tangled with a conman, and then compounded this by shitting on her styaff, and making them lie to the press. She will pay for it all sooner or later, and she should already have paid for her lack of judgment by losing any chance of promotion to become a more important judge.
But it is still a mystery why the daily Mail hates her so much for believing exactly the sort of New Age crap it tirelessly peddles to its readers..
There is something delightful about the fact that this illuminating interview with Whit Diffie, though very recent, is accessible only through Google’s cache. I bet they did it to make the libertarians feel better.
A “paedophile priest” scandal that can be enjoyed wholeheartedly by pinkos. It has seemd that all the cases of child abuse in the American church were in fact homosexual. Now something much more Swaggertesque has turned up in the files of the Archdiocese of Boston, as reported by the Boston Globe:
MORE...I have been browsing the warhard sites, and as usual end up wondering how they can be writing from or about the same planet as I inhabit. This in particular caught my eye, partly because of its hysterical anti-Europeanism, so that the writer asserts almost simultaneously that European govenements need take no account of the views of their electorates, and that Gerhard Schröder is a very wicked man for appealing to his electorate’s anti-Americanism.
MORE...I don’t often read Guardian profiles unless I have written them. I sometimes worry that this attitude will spread. But Bernard Williams looked like fun; it was. Very nicely written, and it had two quotes which made him appear entirely sympathetic:
MORE...The last time I saw Steven Pinker, at the Old Vic, with Ian McEwan, he was so dreadful that words failed me altogether. I’m glad that Louis Menand was not so afflicted, in the New Yorker.
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