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Mark Steel can be funny. And perceptive I worry about comedians... I keep thinking they're on my side (our side?) because they mock what I mock or abhor - I ignore the rest; but the drive is to be funny and that can lead to trivialisation I would probably have laughed if I had heard or read that; but in a way it lets Blair off. It's the deaths that he's caused, and the wrecking of the Labour Party, not the freebies that worry me I made the same mistake with Gaddafi and the umbrella. I could easily have taken a moment and written something here or elsewhere about Gaddafi the performance artist And then I reflected on what else he's up to. I thought of Amin. There is a place for mockery but we need more and we don't get it On that, I offer an alternative paragraph of the day - which refers to the sources of power of these conmen performance artists. I stumbled on this on the way home. That <irony>great left wing news paper</irony> London Evening Standard quote So that’s how UK plc functions. Sell weapons to madmen. Feed booze to the poor. Help the rich to gamble. Best not be too squeamish about it — this may well prove the best route to tumescent profit margins and a gush of employment opportunities and tax revenues for the rest of us. But, as Cameron came dangerously close to admitting in another carefully worded speech yesterday, we shouldn’t kid ourselves that our values and our interests are always the same thing unquote Nice to know we have values. I hadn't thought of Cameron having them There you are. Anyone wanting the full can sign up for free, giving as much information, it felt, as the census or bc me and I'll send you a plain text L On Wed, February 23, 2011 23:04, Douglas Barbour wrote: > from Mark Steel: > > The most worrying side to world events is if Gaddafi and Berlusconi both > depart, there'll be hardly any world leaders left to offer Tony and > Cherie Blair a free holiday. It only needs Murdoch to be overthrown and > the Blairs will have to go to Pontins at Camber Sands. > > Doug > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > > Latest books: > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > Wednesdays' > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10 > .html > > > Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for > exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, > just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. > > Walter Benjamin > > -- --- NAMING and CURSING: some live text-sound compositions http://www.revistalaboratorio.cl/2010/12/naming-and-cursing-some-live-text-sound-composition/ --- Lawrence Upton AHRC Creative Research Fellow Dept of Music Goldsmiths, University of London