Jonny Greenwood is Radiohead’s keyboardist. When he joined the band in his teens, he had no idea how to play the instrument. The previous player had been fired for playing too loudly. “So when I got a chance to play with the group,”he said, “the first thing I did was to turn my keyboard off …
“If you invite a bear to dance, it’s not you who decides when the dance is over. It is the bear”. (Russian proverb cited in the New York Times) My comment: Don’t trust Russia
There is a clear story in the way Americans perceive our country. We assume there are far fewer white Christians than there actually are, and that there are far more of everyone else – people of color, immigrants, non-Christians, non-straight people and non-binary people. To be fair, Americans also overestimated the number of left-handed people …
The British ferry operator P&O, carrying cars and their owners across the Channel, has summarily and instantaneously sacked 800 of its workers, apparently without even ten minutes of notice, and has replaced them with cheaper agency staff. The Mirror describes the “despicable billionaire chiefs” behind the sackings as “scum,” while The Guardian says ministers and …
A Washington state lawmaker has introduced a bill requiring life jackets in canoes and kayaks, but wants to exempt Native Americans due to their “eons” of experience. Native Americans have the highest drowning rate of any racial demographic, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Nevertheless, State Rep. Cindy Ryu said that her bill exempts …
