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March 15, 2006
Progress
Today, as well as being the Ides of March (beware, Ian Blair) is the anniversary of the birth of Test cricket. We lost to Australia.
Nothing really changes, does it?
Although we majestically vanquished them last time, current form would indicate that next time we play at the MCG, we won't be favourites. Elsewhere in the world, Italian political debate has moved from being centred around killing people to being centred around food and extravagant insults, apparently. So some progress, I guess.
Advancements are also somewhat stunted in the grand old field of electoral reform. The now presumably rotting corpse of Thomas Hare, the daddy of STV, will be 200 in a couple of weeks. He wanted some sort of sophisticated way of electing people. He only convinced John Stuart Mill.
"What wonder, then, if the mind misses every impression except those to which it surrenders itself? The result is that we draw sweeping conclusions from trifling indications and lead ourselves into pitfalls of delusion" – Lucretius, (ca. 99 BC-55 BC)
Posted by pauldavies on March 15, 2006
