Fuddland

Wikipedia’s entry is incredibly comprehensive and coherent. [Via Neil’s Smaller World.]

Stv and Jo had a very minor interaction with the subsequent tidal wave tsunami [thanks to mrtn for pointing out that there was absolutely nothing tidal about the wave], much to our relief.

Alice Miles’s comments in The Times:

And what of England’s Churches? Oddly, silent too. Their bishops, so often the high priests of portentous blather, appear to have been struck dumb. This even though — or perhaps because — many of their followers, to judge from e-mails reaching The Times, consider the Indian Ocean earthquake to be God’s work: “Why does Lord Rees-Mogg call the earthquake an act of nature, when it is an act of God? Has he forgotten his Bible? Isaiah xi, 7 I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster, I, the LORD, do all these things.” Yes, it is the duty of Christian leaders to try to answer these things.

Perhaps those are debates for another time — but is there ever a long-enough lull?

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