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WEATHER FIXED
England is normal:
After the heaviest April snowfall for 20 years, freezing temperatures and a series of heavy downpours, forecasters are predicting a return to old-fashioned British weather - spring showers followed by a wet and warm summer.
Robert Fisk’s opinion is keenly awaited.
[Forecaster Dave] Britton said present conditions were not consistent with the warmer temperatures predicted by global warming models.
That’s two years in a row that the models have been wrong. The only model who’s reliably wronger is Naomi Campbell.
UPDATE. The Guardian’s Rachel Cooke meets Fisk - who turns out to be (surprise!) a ranting loon:
On he goes: unrelenting, furious, pernickety and labyrinthine in argument. Every anecdote involves three dusty side alleys, every explanation three historical examples ...
It is worrying that he refers to himself repeatedly in the third person. ‘Have you read any Fisk?’ he asks me on the telephone before I land in Beirut, a question that is insulting on so many levels. And now I’m here, he keeps calling himself ‘Mr Bob’. Oh, well.
Mr Bob is a big fan of Osama bin Laden: “He says things [Arab] leaders will not say. He articulates injustice.” But not of the Lebanese: “The Lebanese are dangerous people.”
So I clicked the Naomi Campbell link, and not only are there no pictures but
A Caracas newspaper said Campbell was wearing a “revolutionary and exquisite white dress from the prestigious Fendi fashion house” when she hugged Chavez and declared: “I’m not here to be political.”
No, dear, of course not, there’s plenty of other reasons for you to be in Venezuela. But even THAT’s not the biggest irritant here. What tee EFF is up with that kid in the insurance ad, glaring at me like he’s fucking Huey from fucking “Boondocks”? To whom the hell are they trying to sell insurance with THAT approach?
Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 04 16 at 03:58 PM • permalinkA friend of mine divides people into loons and buffoons. He maintains the former are always more interesting than the latter.
On that basis, I believe Fisk must more accurately fall into the latter camp.
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2008 04 16 at 07:01 PM • permalink#9
Waterloon Waterloon where will you meet your Waterloon
Every Fisk has his day everybody has to pay everybody has to meet his Waterloon
Now ol’ Fisk was not the first in history with an model he was tempted and deceived
Just for spite the OBL made him take a bite
And that’s where ol’ Fisk met his WaterloonPosted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 16 at 08:17 PM • permalinkUnfortunately, the weather in France has not been fixed, and real estate agents are complaining about it.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2008 04 16 at 08:42 PM • permalinkRadio thismorning was depressing.
With the melting ice sheets and melting glaciers we’re going to be in real trouble, the ocean will probably rise more than 1.5 metres… I can’t find a link, I was distracted by a house passing me on the road (first the police made us get off the road).Meanwhile, Garrett’s at it again with the plastic bag banning - and the states are merrily joining in.
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Lists the usual suspects. Including Rooters(tm)10kae(tm)Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 16 at 11:38 PM • permalink“Have you read any Fisk?”
No, but I stepped in some once.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2008 04 17 at 12:54 AM • permalink#16
I literally can’t make it through more than a sentence or two of most of that junk. Tim must have an iron constitution.
I assume he reads it for the endless unintentional comedy.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 17 at 10:30 AM • permalink#17
I wonder if The Independent offices have signs in the hallways reading: “Please don’t step in the Fisk”...
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 17 at 10:32 AM • permalink
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It is worrying that he refers to himself repeatedly in the third person. ‘Have you read any Fisk?’
Well, if you were Fisk, wouldn’t you use verbal subterfuge to make people think you weren’t he?