Comments on: Telling it straight http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/03/10/telling-it-straight/ A year-round Davos of the mind, written since 1999 by Lance Knobel Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:26:21 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Davos Newbies » Blog Archive » Your choice: drunks, connivers, thugs or lunatics http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/03/10/telling-it-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-280418 Davos Newbies » Blog Archive » Your choice: drunks, connivers, thugs or lunatics Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:41:23 +0000 http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/03/10/telling-it-straight/#comment-280418 [...] months ago, not incidentally, I linked to Muir’s essential guide to the then “frozen conflict” of South Ossetia. Pity he didn’t have many more [...] [...] months ago, not incidentally, I linked to Muir’s essential guide to the then “frozen conflict” of South Ossetia. Pity he didn’t have many more [...]

]]> By: Doug M. http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/03/10/telling-it-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-236281 Doug M. Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:24:44 +0000 http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/03/10/telling-it-straight/#comment-236281 Thanks for the kind words, Lance. Gamsakhurdia really does deserve a post of his own -- he's a fascinating character. Basically, he had a really horrible case of Great Man's Son syndrome... Daddy was Georgia's greatest living writer, while the son was just a second-rate intellectual. Then events conspired to throw him into power. You'd feel kind of sorry for him if he hadn't done so much damage. Anyway, more installments coming soon. Thanks again! cheers, Doug M. Thanks for the kind words, Lance.

Gamsakhurdia really does deserve a post of his own — he’s a fascinating character. Basically, he had a really horrible case of Great Man’s Son syndrome… Daddy was Georgia’s greatest living writer, while the son was just a second-rate intellectual. Then events conspired to throw him into power. You’d feel kind of sorry for him if he hadn’t done so much damage.

Anyway, more installments coming soon. Thanks again!

cheers,

Doug M.

]]> By: Frank Leahy http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/03/10/telling-it-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-236241 Frank Leahy Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:35:33 +0000 http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/03/10/telling-it-straight/#comment-236241 Lance, Reminds me of two BBC productions you might be interested in watching (if you haven't already). First, "The State Witin" a six part thriller having as the main character the British Ambassador to the US playing against the US Sec Defense who is starting a war in a former Soviet Republic...parallels to the lead into the war in Iraq are chilling. The other, and possibly the best TV I have ever seen, is the first two episodes of the 5th season of MI-5 (aka Spooks in the UK), about a coup at the top of the UK government that starts with the creation of an oil/NHS/health panic that allows them to suspend civil liberties wholesale. Guaranteed to make you want to rent the whole series. -- Frank Lance,
Reminds me of two BBC productions you might be interested in watching (if you haven’t already). First, “The State Witin” a six part thriller having as the main character the British Ambassador to the US playing against the US Sec Defense who is starting a war in a former Soviet Republic…parallels to the lead into the war in Iraq are chilling. The other, and possibly the best TV I have ever seen, is the first two episodes of the 5th season of MI-5 (aka Spooks in the UK), about a coup at the top of the UK government that starts with the creation of an oil/NHS/health panic that allows them to suspend civil liberties wholesale. Guaranteed to make you want to rent the whole series.
– Frank

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