Sunday, November 06, 2011

Odd fellows

As I sit here after listening to Noam Chomsky orate about his high-minded principles -he's in Sydney collecting his 'Sydney Peace Prize'- it strikes me how odd the life of a right-on intellectual must be. One moment you're right behind Pol Pot and the killing machine that was his Khmer Rouge regime, the next you're espousing how 'noble and honourable' the Occupy Wall Street movement is. Topsy turvy things those flexible morals..