Noelle McCarthy is hosting Critical Mass today and we began with Letters From Wetville where Sandra posts on Acting Like Normal, Hibernation, In Solidarity with Our Town and Waiting, Hoping and Praying.
These are insider’s thoughts on the Pike River mine explosion. She’s writing from inside about her own community and people which gives her posts a poignancy and intimacy which other media, looking from the outside in, can’t replicate.
We moved on to something completely different – Theodore Dalrymple believes that vulgarity is now the ruling characteristic of England.
And we finished by discussing Noelle’s column in the Herald on the problem of having too many Facebook friends.
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