Jul
31
2006
Well after bringing up the depressing headlines and news stories concerning the middle east, I left work this evening and just as I left the building it started to rain. First time I’ve had to walk in the rain for well over a month. And I actually missed. Didn’t even wait under cover at the bus stop, but walked home, in the rain. In fine fettle 
I also discovered this story about an Irish Sumo Wrestler while surfing about the place. Though when I say sumo wrestler I don’t actually mean that. No this fella just delights in doing random sports-related stuff. Including competing at the world elephant polo championships. Genius.
Also while walking home I spotted a ship down by the keys, one of them posh yacht types. But it had the coolest name, The Battered Bull! Isn’t that great?
Jul
31
2006
TV has been a tad on the depressing side recently. And I don’t mean the boring-ness of Lost, but actual real life programmes. Not the “moan at the stupidity of reality-tv” but the real stories that have been floating about. First there was the BBC’s Execution of a teenage girl, about a 16 year old girl hanged in Iran because she committed adultery. Despite the fact that she wasn’t married, and it is against the secular law to execute anyone under 18 there. But it isn’t illegal to have sex with a 13 year old girl. The man got 90-odd lashes. She’d previously recieved 100 for “crimes against chastity”. Hearing that sort of thing is almost enough to make you side with George W Bush.
I have, however, been avoiding the news lately, but after Top Gear last night there was nothing on but Silent Witness, and then we weren’t bothered to change the station and the news came on. It is all just so pointless and tragic. So I’ve been ignoring it. Selfish maybe, but nothing I can do but feel that both sides are wrong. And that there isn’t any right side.
There was a march in Dublin against Israel’s action. I didn’t go. I wouldn’t feel right because both sides are equally as wrong, Israel just has better military technology. Which is why Hezbollah use guerilla tactics, which is why the Israeli’s accuse them of hiding among the civilians. If they come out into the open and fought more conventionally it’d still be asymmetrical warfare, just in a different way.
