February 2012
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Communism, British style →
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Grayling the #jobsnob | Hagley Road to Ladywood →
#workfare #classwar #eattherich
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Actions speak louder than “Satanic baby-killer”... →
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Patrick Stewart is made of Win →
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Preserving the peace in a holy place →
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The Münchhausen martyrdom of Rick Warren, Chuck... →
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But last night, plans of a future war, was all I... →
The Grey Lady reveals itself as one of the finest fanfic sites of the current era as it hungrily fantasizes about war between Israel and Iran. Were I a pessimist, I would perhaps view this as laying the groundwork, but I have lately been feeling an unseemly sort of optimism, and all this jingoism toward Iran is sounding increasingly impotent and fantastical. I say this with full knowledge that...
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The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy... →
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Alt Text: Handy Rules for the Creation of Lethal... →
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BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep →
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Mark Steel: Any old excuse to invade Iran - The... →
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The Mystery of Quantitive Easing →
With £350 billion we could have built an enormous amount of social housing on brownfield sites, converted derelict high streets into housing, built the Severn barrage and a high speed rail link from London to Aberdeen and still have had change. We could have reopened the steel industry to do it. a thousand manufacturing firms could have been re-tooled. Millions could have been employed. The entire...
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non-profit, but nonprofit for who? →
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Self-Domestication in Bonobos and Other Animals →
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Platform Shoe →
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Acqua Alta2 →
from @WarrenEllis
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Do celebrities deserve their own Kaddish? →
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Missing Hammer →
The moral cretins who rationalize away their selective lionization by convincing themselves that Manning’s no Daniel Ellsberg are right in one sense, anyway: Ellsberg had the good fortune to be persecuted by a Republican.
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Keep Off Grass | Who is IOZ? →
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Half Baked: The Trouble With Cupcake Feminism |... →
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Valentine Dilemma | XKCD →
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Penis Size Worries | Petra Boynton →
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5 Ridiculous Sex Myths Everyone Believes |... →
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Summers →
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How Matters / Friday’s Poetic Pause: “The... →
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Exposed – The bullying culture at The Sun | Tom... →
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“Now I’m sure that, among that top 1%, there were some incredibly...”
– “The Workers are Animals. Let’s Replace Them with Robots.”
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Dear Guys Who Would Like to Make Stuff up About... →
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By Daily Mail Reporter… really? « Richard Osley →
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Goodbye Labour →
Faced with Miliband and Balls “signalling” (or whatever), those negotiating to defend workers will be told by their managements that “even” the Labour leadership concede the necessity for cuts and concessions. This simply cuts the ground from under the feet of trade unionists and campaigners. It also validates Tory policies in the eyes of large parts of the electorate.
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Bear McCreary Reveals the Physics Behind Your... →
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Guantánamo: Ten Years and Counting →
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Even five years ago, such a proposal would not... →
“To see something that small and that far away, you need a very big telescope, and the biggest telescope you can make on Earth is to turn the whole planet into a telescope,” Marrone said.
To that end, the team is connecting up to 50 radio telescopes scattered around the globe…
