Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Israel Shamir

This is mad enough to be here, even though politics is something I normally avoid.

3 comments:

nagihun said...

I find that very unlikely (don't tell me you defected to the apolitical camp!)- except if you have another blog under another name (please not another Joe Djugashvili)where you issue communist manifestos :-)

James Womack said...

No, I mean politics is something I avoid on this site - the imaginary world of debates and borders rarely gets a look in next to the reality of my various rats and squid. I personally am still as political as ever I was (if that makes you feel more comfortable).

Anonymous said...

Speaking of rats, the giant rat of West Papua, and its cousin the absurdly cute small possum of West Papua, have surely passed across your radar.

It doesn't seem possible to visit West Papua, without that I take many more degrees and become a zoologist, a fate unlikely to appeal to someone afraid of buying a guinea-pig for fear that it might die. Papua New Guinea one can visit, though the tours seem unprepossessingly filled with opportunities to gawp at the strange natives.

Given that oil is only likely to become more expensive, and taxes on its profligate use are only more likely to be imposed, I can go to Lviv any time, and Papua New Guinea, whilst, yes, absurdly expensive now, will be absurdly expensiver later.

What does the path of wisdom dictate?