The best opportunity for the Left in decades... But where are they? The ball is sitting just yards away from an unguarded net and there is no striker to stroke the ball home.
The pitch is empty because a large part of the team in red strips are still in the dressing room arguing with each other and the rest of them have been bought by the other side.
Thursday 5 March 2009
Wednesday 4 March 2009
Simon Cowell and cryogenics
Last week the pop mogul Simon Cowell announced he will have his body frozen when he dies, hoping that in the future medical science will be able to revive him.
Leaving aside the egotism of the man and the scientific practicalities of the revival operation, this makes for depressing thoughts for us mere mortals, ordinary people without the means available to Cowell and the other very wealthy people on the planet.
Up until now we thought that despite the inequalities of life, the disparity of life's possibilities between the rich and the poor majority, at least in death we would be equal. There would be way to cheat such a certainty, and all that inequality would then mean nought. Now the rich and famous can possibly live on and on, while we are dead and gone. And our children will have to suffer such people for eternity.
Leaving aside the egotism of the man and the scientific practicalities of the revival operation, this makes for depressing thoughts for us mere mortals, ordinary people without the means available to Cowell and the other very wealthy people on the planet.
Up until now we thought that despite the inequalities of life, the disparity of life's possibilities between the rich and the poor majority, at least in death we would be equal. There would be way to cheat such a certainty, and all that inequality would then mean nought. Now the rich and famous can possibly live on and on, while we are dead and gone. And our children will have to suffer such people for eternity.
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