This site seems to carry a lot of good advice.
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Damian
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A Modest Proposal
You’ve got to admire his originality: A British academic has provoked controversy by calling for female drug addicts to be paid to take contraception to stop them having children.
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Forty-Seven!?
Cricket doesn’t often feature here, but this is too strange a result to ignore. What are the Windies smoking? (It was pretty tough choosing the freakiest sports story to feature here, on a weekend when Villa won 0-4 away and Man U lost 4-1 to Man City.)
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Cohen Does It Again
As I always write: Nick Cohen is Left wing; I frequently disagree with him; his journalism is often superb. In today’s Observer he defends human rights against the “War on Terrorism” crowd, attacks poor little rich boy terrorists and worries about the dangers of anti-Muslim racism. Nothing has been sillier in the past few years […]
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Bang To Rights
I see Amber’s unbelievable Texan miscarriage of justice story and I raise with a British one. WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit? An apology, maybe? Counselling? Champagne? Compensation? Well, if you’re David Blunkett, the […]
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Falling Pregnant
Teenage pregnancy rates in Britain continue at more-or-less the same depressingly high level they’ve been at since the 70s. The BBC covers the question of why. Whenever there’s a debate about this you get the usual answers: on the Left concerned types talk about how more sex education is needed; on the Right concerned types […]
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Blue Murder
According to Oxford Today, BBC Oxford has produced a popular online murder mystery game, introduced by Colin Dexter. One piece of advice I have read: don’t view the last clue until you’re sure whodunnit. I don’t know the answer myself, but I suspect it would also be wise to cover up the public poll results […]
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Fully Mobile
Met up with the Kids of the Campus in the end last night—in the street. How very now.
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Oi, Levy, No!
Judith, according to Claire, your email account is bouncing her messages!
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Unanimity At Last
So far, my friends seem to be as one in their disagreement with my rant about The Passion (and gay marriage). Wow.
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Make a Joyful Noise
One of Claire‘s friends sent this one. It’s pretty childish I know, but anyone even vaguely familiar with the language of pornography will find it hard to stifle a snigger at this real parish Website. It reminds me of the days when the girls of Philadelphia’s Beaver College [since renamed for some reason] would visit […]
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Harsh
Yesterday Amber sent me a New York Times article about the latest development in a shocking story from Texas that she’s been following for quite some time: 46 people, almost all of them black, were arrested on fabricated drug charges in Tulia, Tex., their ordeal will draw to a close today with the announcement of […]
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Meep Meep
I was supposed to be out with a bunch of Genome Campus types, but, thanks the relaxed mores of the youth of today, I was only txted the co-ordinates of the rendezvous point when I had given up on the party and was wandering around Tesco’s, looking for the Parmesan. I’m now ‘Blogging as I […]
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Neighbours (again)
The latest on Johann Hari’s Website is a sad tale of a Palestinian schoolteacher who has Israeli soldiers occupying the upstairs part of his home. “I will never lose my optimism,” Khalil said the last time I saw him. “There are people on both sides who want peace. The real battle is not between Israel […]
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Wakka Wakka
I hate slapstick. John Sessions once described it as “people being very stupid, very slowly, over and over again.” As I watched the trailer for the new feature-length Starsky and Hutch and a succession of surreal pratfalls flickered past, my desire to see the film itself slowly seeped away. Then I came to the end […]
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Lion’s Shear
If Nicole Kidman invited me up onto her sleigh for some Turkish delight, I might be tempted to join the forces of darkness.
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On Suffrage
In Afghanistan, you should let your women vote because they will, after all, vote for who you tell them to. [via FARK]
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Filling That Sling
In Singapore, before you can have maternity leave, it seems you need procreation leave.
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It Was The Money Not The War
Someone who ought to know makes a plausible case in the Financial Times today that Libya’s turning over of WMD had little to do with the war in Iraq.
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It’s the Christianity, Stupid
Yesterday Claire sent me a link to Christopher Hitchens’ recent piece about Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. My thanks to Claire. I’d already read this article, and the one that it in turn refers to, about whether or not the Jews killed Christ; but I reread them and thought about the questions they […]
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Aagh!
Usually I have to ‘Blog hurriedly in between other stuff. Today I’ve been at home pretty much all day so I’ve had plenty of time to post things properly to PooterGeek. My ineptitude has expanded to fill the time available to it. Somehow, every time I wander over to my keyboard to do so, I […]
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Revealed: The Hell of Captivity
Leading Right-wing pro-war daily The Guardian exposes the shocking truth: He spent a typical day watching movies, going to class and playing football. He was fascinated to learn about the solar system, and now enjoys reciting the names of the planets, starting with Earth. Less diverting were the twice-monthly interrogations about his knowledge of al-Qaida […]
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Talking of Fairy Stories
In today’s Observer there is a report on Disney pinning some hope of recovery on hugely expensive productions of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia books. The correct versions of my last two posts are now up. The content isn’t hugely different, but they are now easier to read and make slightly more sense than the ones […]
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Kerry Backer
Gene is a hawkish Lefty and a frequent poster of pro-Israeli comment at pro-war Labour/Marxist ‘Blog “Harry’s Place”. Yesterday he defended US Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry there over the issue of “defense”.
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More Plastic Dolls
Kibo reminds us why Darth Vader isn’t scary any more.
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“Hippity-Hop Music”
The next Coen Brothers Production is a remake of English comedy classic The Ladykillers, with Tom Hanks in the Alec Guinness role. Sounds dodgy? If the trailer on the official site is anything to go by, it could be good.
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Pale with Shock
Rather upsetting the rest of the World’s view of US justice, a very famous, very rich American is convicted of several crimes. I bet Michael Jackson is thinking about OJ Simpson’s escape and Martha Stewart’s predicament and wishing he’d not “developed” that “skin condition”. I think we can see the way her appeal will pan […]
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Metaphor Stew
Judith‘s sharp editrix eye was caught by a couple of mixed metaphors in the media this week. Rob Lowe, a star of NBC TV’s West Wing said of one of his fellow actors in the show, Allison Janney: “She just tees the ball up and hits it out of the park every single time.” . […]
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Wallflowers
After something of a break for this recurring feature, it’s time for another “crazy Israeli” item.
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