I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn’t fight. He hadn’t fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I hope that Canada.com will forgive me for stealing this oh-so-perfect title. I could not resist. I’ve been asked why I don’t admit that I was wrong about the Iraqi war. Why don’t I acknowledge the success and join in the jubilation of the people shown on TV yesterday. It must […]
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Waste not. Want not.
Guardian Unlimited’s Brian Whitaker’s Symbolic in more ways than one: The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, again threatened to escalate the Middle East conflict last night when he accused Iraq’s neighbour, Syria, of helping senior members of the Baghdad regime to escape. The US was getting “scraps of evidence” to this effect, Mr Rumsfeld added. Asia […]
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The year’s at the spring
The year’s at the spring, And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’s dew-pearled; The lark’s on the wing; The snail’s on the thorn; God’s in his Heaven’ All’s right with the world! Robert Browning “The Year’s at The Spring”
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Game over, US won
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Doc wrote today: We’ve won in Iraq. The citizens of Bagdad are elated. Nothing like a toppled statue to make a conclusive point. … The sounds I heard coming from Cheney this morning were very encouraging. If we do what he says we’re doing, maybe we can restore some level of trust in an Arab world […]