Happy St Patrick's Day
I was due to be born on this day but arrived some minutes too late. Perhaps as well, as it seems I am not remotely Irish.
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Nationalism cannot exist in a conflict-free condition; it cannot exist as a thing devoid of grudges and claims. Wherever the nationalism of one group rears its head, immediately, as if from beneath the ground, this group's enemies will spring up. - Richard Lindzen (climate scientist, MIT)
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It was a brilliantly thoughtful post on atheism which first drew Tom Paine to my attention and since then he has continued to inspire, with his well-reasoned and often furious posts on politics. His devotion to his series of testimonials has revealed a keen eye for character and a real interest in the motivations of the bloggers he writes about. A class writer and thinker. - James Higham
Whilst bloggers like yours truly are rabbiting on twenty words to the dozen, Tom is taking it all in, rarely commenting and then coming out with sheer common sense, whatever the topic. You need to know what you’re talking about when you approach Mr. Paine and I strongly suspect there’s a wealth of life experience tucked away behind that moniker and it comes through in his support of good causes. Little wonder Tom is on most of the A list blogrolls and all of ours as well.
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From time to time I will upload photos of Russia and in particular my "home town", Moscow. It is an amazing city, more New York than Paris, but beautiful at times in an anarchic way. You can't have so many people living in one place without interesting things happening.
I got 15% as well. Must be that the whole planet has 15% of the irish in them.
Posted by: Dave Petterson | Monday, March 17, 2008 at 07:25 PM
Happy Birthday
Posted by: Jeremy Jacobs | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 03:18 AM
Happy birthday. :)
Posted by: Sean Jeating | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 04:51 AM
Happy belated birthday, Tom.
I, too, am only 15% Irish.
Posted by: Ruthie | Friday, March 21, 2008 at 08:59 AM