5 November, 2007

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.

For some reason tonight was all about looking up the history of nursery rhymes. It all started with a discussion about copyright and ended in discovering just how old a lot of the common nursery rhymes are, not to mention how political many are. Kinda cool actually. There’s something appealing about subversion in the nursery.

It’s Guy Fawkes night. We have explosions going off all around us. Is tonight meant to be a warning to politicians or a chance for consumers to burn money andget off on “all the pretty lights”? Cynicism aside, it seems that as our government looks to pass very American anti-terrorism laws maybe we should stop “behaving badly” with our fireworks and start behaving much more seriously.

… or maybe I’m just tired and blowing stuff up sounds like fun…