Every now and then, I re-read this book to be reminded of the utter foulness of the diamond industry. And Hart doesn’t even get into the really gruesome bits. Indeed, most of the book reads like a paean to the diamond, with an impressive array of famous diamonds featured in the pages of Diamond, along …
Daily Archives: 3 December, 2008
Skirting the Issue
I really have to say, if I haven’t said it lately, how much I love Feministing. Those ladies are so many degrees of awesome that it blows my mind, and they are constantly posting material which feeds my mind, and my ever-simmering rage against people as a whole. Every now and then, they post about …
Irritable Constables
Allegedly, when you are freshly bathed, you tend to be less judgmental, although I don’t know how much credence I lend to these findings. For one thing, I’ve noticed that people with high hygiene standards for themselves tend to object to lower standards in others, which is pretty judgmental if you ask me. I wasn’t …