The Ship of Fools
Chronicle of Ordinary Madness
Every day I am bombarded with emails from readers asking me to draw attention to this or that. We live on a planet that has gone completely mad; it's no secret to anyone, and in this catalogue of horrors I am spoiled for choice. There are sites that speak out, as much as they can. When you connect to them you quickly reach saturation point. The facts I report here are so grave that it took me some time before plunging into this bloody mire. In doing so I said to myself: "how can I get these messages across, they are so monstrous?" I considered the "jam on toast" strategy. So do not be surprised to find distracting, even amusing, elements in these pages. It's just to give you the courage to plunge into what follows.
1 - After a diverting evocation of transatlantic crossings on immense liners, a dossier "Tazers for women." 11 January 2008. Link
2 - The confidences of filmmaker Aaron Russo, six months before his death. Suffering from cancer, he knew he was condemned to die shortly. Stupendous and frightening. 12 January 2008. Link