Category Archives: Bev-Nap

Things I wish I’d said, witticisms, clever asides, often overhead in a bar where the only thing to write it down on for posterity is a bev-nap

The God’s are Crazy

I just heard this story on the Beeb about a “cargo cult” in the South Pacific which has been around for 50 years!

One of the world’s last surviving cargo cults is celebrating its official 50th anniversary on Tanna island in Vanuatu.

The John Frum Movement worships a mysterious spirit that urged them to reject the teachings of the Church and maintain their traditional customs.

The cult was reinforced during WWII, when US forces landed with huge amounts of cargo – weapons, food and medicine.

Well, here’s to John Frum!

Say what?

Jeffery Goldberg, in The New Yorker, February 12, 2007 writing on Joe Lieberman’s defense of the Bush administration’s Iraq war policy “Lieberman won’t criticise anyone involved but the comprehensively discredited former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld”