My mother, in the car, talks about nowadays women and mentions the Sexual Revolution:
We, women, fought to have a job, a husband, and lovers!
No, my mother does not cheat on my father. I think she was talking about lovers as boyfriends, out of wedlock. (But when her first marriage went wrong... Hee! I love my mum!)
Al Gore, vice-president of the United States during the Clinton years (1992-2000), Nobel prize winner for his work on the environment, said in a speech during a climate summit:
The political systems of the developed world have become sclerotic. We have to overcome the paralysis that has prevented us from acting and focus clearly and unblinkingly on this crisis rather than spending so much time on OJ Simpson, Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith.
This is a gift from the Iraqis. This is the farewell kiss, you dog... This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.
This is the transcript given by Politico.
Ada sent me a list called How to be creative (go have a look), in which there is a very good sentence:
Everybody has their own private Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb.
Yeah, words get their meaning when you find yourself in the situation they describe.
My clumsy translation for Ségolène Royal's clumsy words:
Talking of honour, Ségolène Royal attempted to defend Georges Frêche's, excluded from the Socialist Party (...) after controversial words on harkis, that he had called «inferior men».
«There has been a lot of unfairness towards Georges Frêche», Ségolène Royal said on France Inter (French radio), highlighting he had been cleared by «a justice court's decision». «He's an important politician, he's a mayor who transformed Montpellier (town in the South of France), he's cultured, he's clever», she added. Obviously, he said «clumsy words but if you had to exclude from the Party everyone who has been clumsy, especially on the candidate for the presidential election (herself, last year), much more blameworthy (...), well there would be a lot of people to exclude», Royal said. But «I don't want to exclude, I want to unite».
A deux jours du vote, le PS en ébullition [Libération]
Is she saying that saying racist words is not important but criticising her when she's a presidential candidate is?! I hope she's just been "clumsy" again...
I love Slate. I think it"s one of the best political magazines ever created.
Today, an article has been posted: which minority group will win the White House next? In the case of a gay candidate, they talk about the fact that younger generations are more tolerant of homosexuality and this is their advice:
We know what to do to improve a gay candidate's chances: murder an old person.
The terrible attack that shocked Pakistan this weekend was shown on TV. One of the people close to me reacted in an appalling, for the least, fashion:
Anyway, they just have to all kill each other in this mess, this way we will get rid of the problem.
Ah, humanism, compassion, HOPE...
My flatmate Luke, who was telling his love misfortunes, with a beer in his hand in front of the TV:
You know what my problem is? I'm too fucking romantic.
More seriously, I believe that he and I have close visions of romantism.
It's not because I suspended my blog that I shouldn't update it from time to time.
A quote from Mrs Thatcher, during her campaign to become Prime Minister of Great Britain:
The Russians said I was "an iron lady". Well, they were right.
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