And whilst we’re on the subject of political rants, much applause to Harold Pinter for his acceptance speech at the Nobel prizegiving ceremony. I particularly enjoyed the speech that he suggested George Bush should use.
God is good. God is great. God is good. My God is good. Bin Laden’s God is bad. His is a bad God. Saddam’s God was bad, except he didn’t have one. He was a barbarian. We are not barbarians. We don’t chop people’s heads off. We believe in freedom. So does God. I am not a barbarian. I am the democratically elected leader of a freedom-loving democracy. We are a compassionate society. We give compassionate electrocution and compassionate lethal injection. We are a great nation. I am not a dictator. He is. I am not a barbarian. He is. And he is. They all are. I possess moral authority. You see this fist? This is my moral authority. And don’t you forget it.
Of course, this will only get reported in places where the readership already know most of what Pinter says. So I don’t expect it to change anything.