Category:
Politics
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9th March 2010NationalityI don't get nationalism. I think it's stupid. I'm English, though I think of myself more as British. I admit that I cheer on England in football and rugby matches, and I root for Team GB in the Olympics. But I can't see nations ((By nation I mean: nation, country, state.)) as anything other than arbitrary containers. What's the difference between me and an Irishman? Why should stepping over an invisible line just North of Berwick upon Tweed mean that I'm in a different country with different laws? ((Whole islands being nations - Iceland, for example - doesn't seem so arbitrary, but ...
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3rd March 2010Jon SwiftFrom Balloon Juice: The blogger who posted as the always hilarious Jon Swift has died. He had so many funny posts that it is hard to choose one, but this take-down of Mark Noonan ranks near the top. I started reading RSS feeds ((Just after the debut of the iTunes app store.)) when I downloaded NetNewsWire 1.0 for iPhone. To fill my greatly expanded reading appetite that I soon developed, I explored the blogrolls of those sites which I already read. Many of them linked to Jon Swift. The Jon Swift blog has lain dormant for quite a while, but when Al was posting I thought ...
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20th January 2010The Relentless March of TimeHello everyone. It's me again (Wilf). I'm glad to be back. There you go. OK. Yep. That's what I came up with for a title. "The Relentless March of Time". What is time? Why does it run the way that it does? What are the implications of time dilation, and the rest of relativity? Why doesn't it in the opposite direction, with effect proceeding cause? Would it ever be possible for time to run in a different way, perhaps in a different universe? Could a universe exist without a temporal ((Shit. I'm sorry and embarrassed to say this, but I had ...
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23rd June 2009Why I WriteNo, this isn't going to be another narcissistic blog post about writing blog posts (wouldn't the world explode?) - instead it will be about the book that I read today: "Why I Write", by George Orwell ((Damn, I should really get some of that Amazon-affiliation-link-money-stuff going on)). I bought the book back in January, as part of my "Large Book Order" (I'll soon be making another one ((I won some prizes at school so I have £60 to spend at Waterstones. Nice.))) but I've only today found the time to read it. I've not been reading books or blogging much lately, ...
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9th March 2009FOX News Is DisgustingWatch this: It's fucking disgusting way that these right wing news scum think and act. Horrible.
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About Wilf's Blog
I, the eponymous author of this blog, have experiences and thoughts about which I want to write. These are those writings.
