Some reading I found going round the blogs in the last day or two.
> Alan Brain has a useful story, from which you can learn what to do if you’re attacked by a certain kind of shark.
> At One-Sided Wonder you can find out about the origins of St Valentine’s Day.
> Gary Jones links to an item explaining why ‘fewer lies appear in email than on the phone’. See if you can come up with an answer yourself before going round to Gary’s.
> British Spin comments on the ‘tired, cliched rubbish’ that is A.L. Kennedy‘s journalism. I have to confess that she is one dnoc opinion dispenser whose stuff I find it virtually impossible to read. It gives you the very essence of the word ‘rebarbative’.
> Mick Hartley highlights a rather curious statement by Seamus Heaney concerning intellectuals and the Iraq war.
> Tim Blair links to this story: ‘Australia’s national broadcaster has instructed its staff not to identify Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hizballah as terrorist organizations, because they have not been designated as such by the United Nations.’
> Alois, at Schmaltz und Grieben, tells of the Norwegian teacher ‘asked not to wear a half-inch Star of David around his neck so as not to offend some students’. (See also here.)
> Tim Newman has respect for The Unity Coalition.
> And Hak Mao has a robust answer to being characterized as ‘pro-war left’. She begins so: ‘That would be pro-liberation left thank you. The question of whether Saddam Hussein was a monstrous, murderous tyrant has two answers – “no” or “yes”. There is no “yes but”.’
> p.s. My own latest guest post is up at A Fistful of Euros.