Rav Casley Gera’s Blog

The Guardian’s take on the Hillary archives

ABC’s take on the Hillary archives

In other news, Chris Crocker gets meta

New York Times: “Mr. Obama’s Profile in Courage”

Somebody should invent a piece of paper which reads out words as you read them. By scanning your eyes. So you could have audio on any book, and you could hear the audio at your own speed. Wouldn’t work well for fiction.

The Fed’s cutting interest rates, reviving the banking markets, all to the good. But the sub-prime repossessions didn’t really kick in until the rate rises of ‘07, right? So isn’t the whole crisis kind of the Fed’s fault anyway??

Alistair Darling made a mistake using “stability” as his budget watchword, I reckon. Hearing the word “stability” just makes me think of “instability” - it’s one of those words that isn’t as resonant as its antonym. “Prudence” works, because when has anyone heard George W. Bush trying to scare everyone with the risk of “imprudence”?

1. incarcerate. I don’t know to what extent Amy Winehouse writes her own lyrics, but if you’re looking for proof of her gift with words look no further than her frequent, increasingly anguished shout-outs to her “Blake Incarcerated”. For Amy knows that, of all the myriad words available to describe her addled hubby’s condition, “incarcerated” has the hardest, coolest, and just sort of bestest ring to it. “Blake imprisoned”, “Blake jailed” or even the politically-current “Black detained” just wouldn’t have the same ring to it.

The truth is that “incarcerated” is far too funky a word to signify something as mundane as imprisonment. “To incarcerate someone” really sounds like you’re going to cut them open with a rusty razor and hang them with their own duodenum. Which may or may not be a suitable fate for Mr. Fielder-Civil, I don’t know…

Oh god, look, I know it shouldn’t matter but what the fuck has happened to Hillary’s face? Her cheeks are exploding!