Do cats have metatarsals? I think that may be what Enkidu broke last year, though I’m not really sure. He certainly wouldn’t have been able to play in a World Cup quarter-final only six weeks after his accident. (I wonder whether Wayne Rooney will have to wear a stupid plastic cone?)
Barbara Castle, the “Red Queen”, born 6 October 1910, died 3 May 2002.
The Mail on Sunday devoted a lot of space to Mr Prescott’s difficulties, and printed excerpts from the diaries of Ms Tracey Temple, and one entry refers to “phone sex” with Mr Prescott. But in the “news” article that accompanied these extracts, “phone sex” had become “coldly sordid phone sex”. So is it that in the world of the Mail on Sunday all phone sex is coldly sordid, by definition, so that “coldly sordid phone sex” is tautologous (and therefore redundant), or was the paper suggesting that there are (at least) two kinds of phone sex, the coldly sordid kind and (let’s say) the warmly uplifting kind, but that they had reason to think that this was the former variety (even though the diary remained strictly neutral on this point)?
There’s a very useful new page on the interwebnet here, from Chris Lightfoot, which tells you how many times the word “nazi” appears on the front page of Mel P’s blog, to save you having to count at any given moment in time [via, in comments].
From the New York Times [via]:
Katha Pollitt and Steven Lukes were married yesterday at Provence, a restaurant in Manhattan. Justice Emily Jane Goodman of State Supreme Court in Manhattan officiated.Ms. Pollitt, 56, is keeping her name. She writes a magazine column, Subject to Debate, in The Nation and is the author of Virginity or Death! and Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time, a collection of her columns scheduled to be published by Random House in June. She is also the author of Antarctic Traveller (1982), a volume of poetry. She graduated from Radcliffe and received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia. Ms. Pollitt is the daughter of the late Leanora and Basil Pollitt, who lived in Brooklyn.
Dr. Lukes, 65, is a professor of sociology at New York University and the author of Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work (1973), and The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat: A Comedy of Ideas (1995). He graduated from Oxford, where he also received a master’s degree and a doctorate in sociology. Dr. Lukes is the son of the late Martha and Stanley Lukes, who lived in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England.
The bride’s first marriage ended in divorce. The bridegroom was a widower.
On the whole I was taught by people who were taught by Steven Lukes, so, indirectly, I suppose he has something to answer for.
If you’re in London, why not join the March for Workplace Justice?
There’s historical background to the holiday here and here.
Americans! For you, today is Loyalty Day!
