Just got an email from
Of course, the website for the paper allows comments, so it’s attracted the usual assortment of Kansas right-wing rednecks, screeching and flinging poo like howler-monkeys.
Remind me why I live here, again?
Classic WHO fans: Stories streaming online….
The BBC has signed a deal with the free movies-on-demand stream site Blinkbox to show old DOCTOR WHO episodes, apparently on a revolving schedule.
Currently, you can watch four tales of the 1st and 2nd Doctors: The Sensorites, The Web Planet, The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Krotons. Others will follow, hopefully.
It’s becoming more and more likely that I could cancel my satellite service and just hook my TV up to a wireless server to stream internet video… the last hurdle for the plan is live soccer matches. I needs my footie fix.
Nobel, Part Deux
So, he didn’t turn it down, as I had hoped he would.
He did say that he felt that he did not deserve the honor, but that he’d accept it “as a call to action.” (Which is, according the Committee, the exact purpose.)
Andrew Sullivan posted a reader’s letter which really hit home for me:
“So, it’s a bad thing that the world is so optimistic about America’s role as a world leader with Obama as President that the Nobel Committee gave him the Peace Prize? Really? So bad he should turn down the honor? Really? Have we gotten so cynical in our views that when a segment of the world shows optimism toward our country, we think the best reaction is to double down on our cynicism?”
My initial reaction was one of political cynicism — that turning it down would be a brilliant move for him, politically. I really didn’t even think about the belief in America’s potential that the award clearly communicates.
Huh.