The Economist this week carries an article on the Green New Deal (UN version, not ours) under the title “Green, easy and wrong”. Its argument is thus: the green new deal sounds wonderful in principle, a way of solving the two most pressing problems we now face, in an attractive, and easy to explain package;…
“Flurry” is a good word to describe the process of the election results. Most of last night was spent waiting for projections, then when they eventually came, they came bundled together. Well there have been a flurry of motions in the Scottish Parliament offering congratulations to Obama today, and similar from world leaders and politicians,…
I was just looking at the results of the various Ballot Measures that were also voted on, in particular, gay marriage. The Arizona and Florida electorates have voted to ban gay marriage, and Arkansasians (what does one call people from Arkansas?) to ban un-married couples from adopting. The rather well-publicised ‘Prop. 8’ in California hasn’t…
WNYC’s ‘The Takeaway’ radio show used their Friday episode to ask listeners for alternative terms to “economic turmoil”. Well, I’m getting fed up of hearing “credit crunch” in almost every news broadcast. My choice up to now has been “financial turmoil”, but I particularly liked one callers suggestion of “huuuui!”, though it sounds better on…