urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight Your Home For Snappy Repartee 應龍 urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight:20080214.0611 2008-02-14T11:11:00 2008-02-14T11:11:00 2008-02-14T11:11:00 <p> What makes something “Historic”? </p> <p> Australia saying sorry to the stolen generations: historic. </p> <p> Important events happen all the time that miss the label “historic”. I think we don’t always realise how these thing affect our society on the long term.</p> <p> I hope Kevin Rudd makes good on the promise of a more united Australia. I hope we all make good on the promise of a more united Australia. I don’t think a broken promise is terribly historic.</p> <p> I was watching CNN for the first time in years yesterday and they vaguely covered the apology by saying Kevin Rudd was trying to improve relations with Aboriginals. It seemed to miss most of the important points, and all of the details. I suppose it is only historic to Australians.</p> <p> I have to say CNN here is disappointing. We get this strange hybrid “international” euro-centric version of CNN. If I am going to watch CNN I want the blindly American-centric version! That is the whole point of watching American owned media.</p> urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight:20071009.2228 2007-10-10T02:28:00 2007-10-10T02:28:00 2007-10-10T02:28:00 <p> I was driving in the car, and listening to the radio today when I was reminded of just how suck radio is in America. Because this radio was actually entertaining. Because I am in Australia. Which is not America. They were talking funny shit about Rudd and Howard. I wish they would just call the election already. It’s too bad they don’t have Halloween in Australia, we could estimate the winner based on sales of Halloween masks of Rudd and Howard like you can with US Presidential candidates.</p>