How was this Possible in 1936?
Last week I uncovered some interesting facts about the summer of 1936. I posted the column here.
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Various musings on whatever I want to write about
Last week I uncovered some interesting facts about the summer of 1936. I posted the column here.
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Global Warming is the hottest hoax around!
I can see in my mind's eye Big Brother as a certain wheelchair-bound astrophysicist with a Stalin moustache crudely drawn on, and those poor big oil executives whose quarterly profits run into the billions are our beleaguered Winstons and Julias.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/earnings/2006-04-25-oil-earns-usat_x.htm
"BP, the world's No. 2 oil company, reported 15% lower quarterly profit of $5.6 billion. Excluding charges, the company earned $1.54 a share, topping estimates from Thomson Financial by 2 cents a share."
Only $5.6 billion? That's like my Dwarf Priest getting downgraded from Mace of Disruption to a measly +4 Holy Avenger flail. I guess they can still afford more than a bottle of oily Victory Gin with that kind of money, though. (Myself, I would want an exact replica of the Manneken Pis in Brussels that pees out $400-a-bottle champagne; the only problem with that is that I'm not an oil CEO and I'm also a teetotaler.)
The comparison to the Two Minutes Hate is strange given that it has a lot to do with the fixation of Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia on that tricky patch of land--oil-rich in some places and ripe for plundering--that stretches roughly from Cairo to Ayutthaya: Westasia. So what exactly does 1984 have to do with a concerned community of scientists, ordinary citizens, Pacific island dwellers, and even... I don't know...insurers?
Sorry, I just don't get the histrionic allusions to Oceania's crusade against the dark, murdering armies of Eurasia, taking into consideration that all but the most radical environmental groups do not encourage killing, bombing, or torture...
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