Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Elsewhere in the Anglosphere

The (United Kingdom) Times Online has a roundup of reaction to the Archbishop of Canterbury's "how do you solve a problem like sharia?" moment, which won't go away because grim anniversaries don't, either.

Speaking of England, Colby Cosh reports that the vacationing salesman from Florida seen gawking at the barefoot Beatles in the iconic photograph on their Abbey Road album has died.

At least one British columnist agrees with Captain Ed that the way to beat Barack Obama is to play nice.

Last but not least, and I'll have to stretch this one to keep the English theme going: Robert Rogers was an eighteenth-century soldier and woodsman born in Massachusetts. He died when the better-known Davy Crockett was 9 years old. But Rogers served the British army ably in his time, making a name for himself during the French and Indian wars and afterward by tramping through parts of the country where Amanda and Jonathan now hold down the fort, this time with great links on love and marriage.

Okay, Amanda has a graduate degree in English literature, but mentioning that up front would have been like playing "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" and stopping after two names.

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