Category: Politics

  • Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech

    Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for literature this year, and his acceptance speech was quite a doozy. Made big news in the UK apparently, but of course here in the US it barely produced a whimper. I think I heard a bit of it on Democracy Now, that was about it. Anyway, it’s long, […]

  • San Francisco votes, O’Reilly rants

    Don’t know if you’ve already heard, but San Francisco voted to ban handguns in the city (aside from law enforcement etc), and also oppose military recruitment in public schools. Bill O’Reilly had an entertaining response… what a goofball: “Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead,” O’Reilly went on. “And if al […]