Pythonesque
In today's Observer, Terry Jones once again writes a pithy, almost funny, yet deeply dark account of the state of the nation's leadership.
Continuing with the absurd, Wil Wheaton's outrage at Bush's description over the weekend of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf - the notorious Iraqi information minister - as "my man" is well-justified. This beggars belief, Bush is a drooling marionette puppeteered by some of the most violently right-wing men in the western world. If you doubt the latter, please follow Terry's advice and read www.newamericancentury.org.
It's really not funny how many works of "fiction" I've encountered lately which ring truer and truer. Neal Stephenson's "Interface" where a stroke victim is manipulated by sinister forces into becoming the perfect populist American president, or "Starship Troopers", Paul Verhoeven's parody space opera depicted a semi-fascist state encouraging genocide against an alien race, or the novel I'm reading right now "Gibbon's Decline and Fall" by Sheri S Tepper - one of my favourite SF writers.
Speaking of Monty Python: I am growing rapidly enchanted with the joys of the Python programming language, named after Terry et al's not unsuccessful comedy troupe. I recommend it to anyone wanted to learn programming, it is straight-forward yet powerful, qualities that few other programming languages bring together.
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