Sunday 23 January 2022

Most presumptuous Christmas Song ever

I'd like to nominate "Do they know its Christmas" as one of the dumbest, most presumptuous, ethno/culturo-centric Christmas song ever.




Hear me out.

Thursday 20 January 2022

Hot, Flat & Crowded - highlights

[This was written about 11 years ago in my Facebook "Notes". But Facebook no longer promotes "Notes", though old notes are kept and occasionally I run across them in the "Memories" feature. I'm moving my notes to my blogs so I can access them when I want.]


Hot, Flat & Crowded is a book by Thomas Friedman who, as a book reviewer notes, "is a journalist, and journalists needs editors, and this book needs serious editing. It's 400 pages of small type. There's a 220 page book in here somewhere, struggling to get out."

This is not that 220-page book, but the highlights of the book.

First some explanations of the title.