February 2012
231 posts
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Question of the Day →
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Communism, British style →
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Cliches of 2012 #1 →
“So just know, Tories, that when you produce outrage from one orifice, but then mumble from the other that bankers’ bonuses are necessary (like Tory minister Ed Vaizey did on last Thursday’s BBC Question Time), the picture that comes out is a pathetic one.”
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Grayling the #jobsnob | Hagley Road to Ladywood →
#workfare #classwar #eattherich
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Patrick Stewart is made of Win →
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Actions speak louder than “Satanic baby-killer”... →
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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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Question of the Day →
3 tags
Cliches of 2012 #1 →
“So just know, Tories, that when you produce outrage from one orifice, but then mumble from the other that bankers’ bonuses are necessary (like Tory minister Ed Vaizey did on last Thursday’s BBC Question Time), the picture that comes out is a pathetic one.”
3 tags
Communism, British style →
2 tags
Grayling the #jobsnob | Hagley Road to Ladywood →
#workfare #classwar #eattherich
5 tags
Patrick Stewart is made of Win →
6 tags
Actions speak louder than “Satanic baby-killer”... →
2 tags
Preserving the peace in a holy place →
4 tags
The Münchhausen martyrdom of Rick Warren, Chuck... →
3 tags
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...
7 tags
The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy... →
4 tags
Alt Text: Handy Rules for the Creation of Lethal... →
5 tags
BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep →
3 tags
Mark Steel: Any old excuse to invade Iran - The... →
5 tags
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...
3 tags
non-profit, but nonprofit for who? →
2 tags
Self-Domestication in Bonobos and Other Animals →
3 tags
Platform Shoe →
5 tags
Acqua Alta2 →
from @WarrenEllis
3 tags
Do celebrities deserve their own Kaddish? →
