SL Day 37

My sleep pattern is shot again, and the news is depressing. I see Henning Mankell was on the flotilla intercepted by the Israeli. The Israeli state depresses me, especially in the dealings with Palestine. Every time I hear an Israeli spokesperson it turns out that it wasn't their fault, and it was some bastard doing it to them. Sometimes it must be their fault. I gather that it would all come down to proportionality as the flotilla was in international waters; it didn't look or sound proportional to me. Meanwhile, reading old newspapers, I see it was David Laws who didn't appear on Question Time due to Alastair Campbell appearing to promote his new book represent Labour. I wonder if we were spun on the excuse, given the story which then broke?


Some reading on Robert Silverberg - all Extrapolation so far - and a cheat count...

( LXXXV: Heinrich von Kleist, "Michael Kohlhaas (From an old chronicle)" (1810) )

( LXXXVI: Robert Silverberg, Lord Valentine's Castle (1980) )