Just in case you might be confused, when you install a GPS or your car comes with navigation computer you are not relieved of your duties behind the wheel. Consider what happened to the people highlighted in a recent story by Reuters: In October a 53-year-old German, obeying his satnav’s command “Turn right now!” jerked … Continue reading Your navigation system is the co-pilot, not the pilot
I have to admit I am really confused by the new US neocon strategy to say that they had nothing to do with the failure of the neocon strategy. Another top neocon, Ken Adelman, had assured the administration in February 2002 that “liberating” Iraq would be a “cakewalk,” but today disavows all responsibility with how … Continue reading NeoCons back to the future
A poem by Robert Byron (1905-1941) read by Prince Charles today for National Poetry Day in Britain. More and more poetry is ending up as audio, which is fine by me. I was a fan of Frost readings as a child, and after listening to his 78s over and over, never felt the written page … Continue reading All These I Learnt
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) (An extract of a performance by Danny Solis can be found on Poetry Slam) Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said … Continue reading The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere