Rohingya minority? What Rohingya minority?

Short Lists

Foreign politicians who are/were married to English men.

1. Aung San Suu Kyi

2. DBR Reed came to my rescue with Helen Clark (former PM of NZ). I would have ruled out her husband on the grounds of not being English enough, but it turns out that the other person I was thinking of, Yulia Tymoshenko, is not married to an English musician at all, it's her daughter who is so betrothed, so Ms Clark is the fall back candidate. Oops.

Next up in the list of lists, a couple of very short lists indeed: Cities in France whose name, if listed next to their region, sounds like a chav and her daughter (submitted by John B), and Towns in Australia which sound as if they were named after a heavy metal magazine.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Referendum on Constitution to go ahead!

... in Burma. Despite being hit by a cyclone.

What is even more amazing is that the whole article (as it stands at 9.41 am on 5 May 2008) doesn't mention 'climate change' or 'global cooling'.

"The whole world must act"

Drivel like this effort by The Goblin King is hardly going to have the Junta in Burma quaking in their boots, is it?

The One-Eyed Wonder solemnly quotes Aung San Suu Kyi at the end "It's no use standing there wringing your hands and saying my goodness, my goodness, this is terrible. You must try to do what you can."

I then went back and read the whole article again. The Chief Brownie helpfully comes up with whole lists of things that might happen on an 'it-would-be-nice-if' basis, but nowhere does he actually say what he, as leader of a fairly big country, is going to DO which will speed up the demise of the Junta.

Wanker.