I know that the death toll in 9/11 was terrible, but on this day in 1904 about a thousand people were burned to death in a steamboat fire on the East River. Most of the casualties were women and children.
Daily Archives: June 15, 2005
Africa and the G8
The G8 plan to save Africa comes with conditions that make it little more than an extortion racket.
Thus George Monbiot, writing in the Guardian.
Good piece, by a writer who, like yours truly, chokes on the notion of Blair & Co as ministering angels to the world’s poor.
eBay digs deeper
Healey’s First Law of Holes: when you’re in one, stop digging. Advice lost on eBay’s management, which has discovered that dealing with St Bob Geldof is not at all like handling Wall Street.
Yesterday, St Bob attacked eBay because people were selling Live 8 concert tickets on it for vast sums. eBay replied primly that the sellers were doing nothing illegal. Geldof then called for people to put in “impossible bids” to frustrate the sellers. Some conscientious folks obliged, putting in bids like £10 million. Now they discover that they have been blacklisted by eBay — at the same time that eBay has decided to ban the hitherto “perfectly legal” ticket auctions.