Month: August 2012
-
Originally posted on The Devil of History:
On Sunday, Salon.com had an essay on the recent Fareed Zakaria plagiarism case. For those of you who don’t follow American middlebrow news sources with a passion, the story is that Zakaria—a regular commentator and columnist for CNN and TIME magazine—lifted a paragraph about the book Gunfight almost… -
HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Aug. 22, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bloody Hell Your diarist is a blood donor. Well, he’d like to be, although it seems a rather difficult function to perform in Bali. He possesses a blood type that is very rare in this part of the world, and so has registered with the Red […]
-
JULIAN ASSANGE (Editorial in The Australian newspaper today)
This says it all … Assange’s hypocritical homily IN his political sermon, uttered from the open-air balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy to the adoring crowd below, Julian Assange confirmed what many have always suspected: his hypocrisy and cowardice is rivalled only by his self-aggrandisement and arrogance. In pleading his case for martyrdom, he was quick […]
-
HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Aug. 8, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Oh Rats! Another problem All of a sudden, The Cage has rats. We are taking steps to eliminate the problem (and the rats) but the incident has prompted further intemperate thought about the vagaries, and difficulties, of life on Pulau Rusak. The rats in question appear […]
8degreesoflatitude 