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andrewducker) wrote2012-04-27 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2012-04-27 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 27-04-2012
- Game of Thrones as a metaphor for US politics (funny)
- Amazing time-lapse footage of the Earth from the ISS.
- You can now buy Star Wars figures for characters that only appeared in deleted scenes
- I worry that we're going to find something like this hidden in our DNA
- 40,000 Norwegians sing to annoy mass killer Anders Breivik
- Sex, politics and religion in Iran
Golshifteh Farahani
- A couple of examples of human evolution
- UK Government extending open standards consultation - after it turned out the chair was working for Microsoft.
- You've always wanted a Dr Who dildo, right?
- How Samuel L. Jackson Became His Own Genre
- Catholic schools launch 'eurgh, benders' petition
If this wasn't basically true then I'd be a lot happier.
- Priests: We won’t break seal of confession to report sex abuse
- Google's "Zerg Rush" easter egg.
Re: Game of Thrones as a metaphor for US politics
In fact, before you said that, I'd assumed the picture had been of Cersei: the "far away" doesn't apply, but the "using her children for political power" is far more accurate. After all, Dany starts over her head because she's a brutalised young teenager, but becomes experienced and competent as fast as she can, and cares about helping people more than power. Whereas Cersei probably had little choice but to seize power, but was too ambitious. And Palin seemed to have every opportunity to stay as governor, but closed her ears to any suggestion she was getting out of her depth and marched ahead as fast as possible.
Re: Game of Thrones as a metaphor for US politics
Cersei is arguably a much better parallel for Palin. The biggest difference is that Palin has ridden much less on the positions of father/spouse/son.
It really is eerie how closely the fiction can be matched to the Game of POTUS.