A night call and I was in the emergency room again last night. Happily, this time it was only for a short while and we were home about an hour and a half later, with the patient feeling well enough that this afternoon she insisted on accompanying me to the bazaar. I had some of […]
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Woke up
Woke up this morning, looked at the news. Fuck me.
America
The Debate Link quotes WEB DuBois in a post about the white nationalists in Virginia and Trump’s refusal to even condemn them and their act of terrorism: As we saw the dead dimly through rifts of battlesmoke and heard faintly the cursings and accusations of blood brothers, we darker men said: This is not Europe […]
In Lahore, continued
On arrival in Lahore I had time for a cup of tea and breakfast (my usual in Lahore – roti and butter), and then went to see my grandmother to find she was on her way to hospital for an injection. I accompanied her and this turned out to be a full day in the […]
Here, in Lahore
I arrived yesterday morning after a slightly ineptly managed but reasonably comfortable journey – PIA is clearly still working out how to do transit passengers and have decided that immigration must take place at the final destination, so there was some low level chaos as they tried to sort out passengers flying on from Karachi […]
On the brink
I suppose I should be glad that we went to South Korea earlier this year, given the current international climate. Better timing than our earlier plans to visit Libya and Syria, both interrupted by war. So if the worst happens, we will have personal experience of what is lost. Not much of a comfort. When […]
Back from Phuket
Phuket was pleasant and I’m glad it’s all over. I don’t do well at luxury resorts at the best of times and, thanks to my work, am acutely sensitive at this time to the ways in which tourism development affects local populations, evicting them from homes and traditional lands, and overlaying their culture with that […]
GLOW
Finished the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling TV series last night. What a great series. I almost don’t want to watch the next season, this was so good. So refreshing to have a really high quality and intelligent series that was also good hearted and funny. It’s set in the 1980s and is a fictionalised account […]
Dispiriting
Politics in Pakistan. What can I say?
Not much to say
This is an even more boring post than others, I am sorry. Let’s see. Another new episode of Game of Thrones last night, I continue my hate-watch of it and wish it would end but can’t look away. I’ve disliked it since the first episode. The acting remains dire, the politics questionable, the writing execrable […]