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Jenson Button Wins 2009 F1 Championship

Just an ‘I remember when…’ post, really. Today Jenson Button won the 2009 Formula One World Chamionship at Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Some people will say that he isn’t a worthy champion, or ‘the car did all the work’.

If you are one of those people then I suggest that you watch a replay of the race, as ‘worthy’ he most certainly was. His driving was aggressive enough at times that it scared me, and I was only watching the race on TV from thousands of miles away.

Well deserved, well raced, and I wonder if he can do it again next year.

Maybe.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama has this morning been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. This has, predictably enough, caused half of the world’s population to complain that he does not deserve it. The Nobel people think otherwise;

“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the Norwegian committee said in a statement.

“His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.”

Personally, I’m half of the mind that this accolade for Obama does seem a little premature considering that he hasn’t actually done anything much, but then again it occurs to me that him not doing anything much is a vast improvement over George Bush when he did anything at all.

So in my humble opinion Barack Obama deserves the prize just for not being George Bush, if nothing else.

I just spotted a witty remark in the comments of an article titled ‘Would Europe back President Blair?’ on the UK Guardian’s comment is free section. It genuinely made me laugh out loud, and I think it needs sharing, so here it is;

Question: Would Europe back President Blair?

Answer: Preferably off a cliff, at the point of a bayonet.

Well said that man/woman.

There’s a curious news situation going on here in Europe today.

All of the news sources of any significance, including the BBC, are running headline near-saturation coverage on the death of Edward Kennedy in the United States.

Yet, aside from some Irish, I have not met or heard of one single European today who cares, other than perhaps in a kind of “An old guy died? That’s a shame, but it happens…” way. That’s the way I feel too. Sure we have heard of his name, but that’s really all.

The European press have clearly now realised this as they are starting to try to make us think that we should care, but we still don’t as the best they can do is stuff like this;

Anchor; “So tell us why he was such an important figure”.

American being interviewed: “Well, he was extremely important, he was family of JFK, for example, and he was almost like a president himself”.

That’s just not going to do it for Europeans. We don’t know the guy, and never did.

So, maybe we can have some other news now that doesn’t assume that we are all Americans? Because we’re not, you know.

“Confusion is always the most honest response.”

- Marty Indik.