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Except instead of calling them battleground states (due to the lack of states, I’m sure), they’re called “marginal.”

Times Online - Make your vote count, easy as 1-2-3, by Martin Samuel: In our ludicrous system we know we don’t matter and the candidates know it too

We hear a lot about voter apathy, but less [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Or give the poor things to some poor family in Afghanistan, perhaps?

FOXnews - Australia Announces Camel Hunt

SYDNEY, Australia — Thousands of wild camels in Australia’s Outback will be shot from helicopters as part of an attempt to control the animals’ burgeoning numbers, a state official and local media said Tuesday.

That’s a bit [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

I had no idea!

Categories: Entertainment

Someone needs to drop heavily underlined copies of this in every reporter and producer’s mailbox.

Sunday Telegraph - The new Pope will be different from the old Cardinal Ratzinger By Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor

Before we entered the conclave the newspapers were totting up the votes expected for this or that cardinal, offering countless hypotheses about blocks [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Well, I’m not hysterical, but I’m back to feeling boo-hooey.

Telegraph - The final frontier

Profile: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy After radio, books and television, Douglas Adams’s creation has a new world to conquer: cinema In the vastness of space, time can boggle the mind: 14 billion [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Telegraph - Big ideas? This feels like a local election, By Mark Steyn

Conversely, Michael Howard’s problem is that he isn’t George W Bush. I don’t mean that he needs to be the swaggering Texan cowboy of Guardian cartoons, but that he should have run as Governor Bush did in 2000, back when he [...]

Categories: Politics

From Mark Steyn’s FAQ (what can I say, I got curious):

Q: What is Mark? A: Straight. Q: I meant his nationality. A: Canadian. Q: Also his religion. A: Mark is of Jewish descent, but was baptized a Catholic, [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Western Standard - Banned in Canada, by Mark Steyn

You may have noticed something similar is going on with the rulers of our own diseased Dominion right now. I don’t mean that the Liberal Party of Canada has been found dead of auto-erotic asphyxiation with a couple of pharmacologically enhanced Timbits in its [...]

Categories: Business & Media

My first official act would be to throw every leaf-blower on an enormous and glorious bonfire.

Categories: Wildcard

Silliness. Pure silliness.

You’ll remember this noble anthem. Well, now we’re treated to this:

the stupid shall be punished - Staff Officer Quotes I

the “Power Point Rangers Creed”: “This is my PowerPoint. There are many like it, but mine is XP. My PowerPoint is my best friend. It is [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Reuters - Prime Minister’s Residence Sold on Web Site

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s intelligence department is investigating reports that a fraudster sold an American businessman the prime minister’s residence in the heart of New Delhi recently, a leading daily reported on Sunday. The businessman forked out 35 million rupees ($802,600) [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

If I were more capable of coping with the mean people of the world today, I’d link to this with something perhaps (I flatter myself) witty and biting. But no, I’ll just link to it, and later today I’ll bury my head in the sand somehow. Seek rejuvenation in what, a romance novel [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Yesterday I linked to Tim Blair and AE Brain on Anzac Day. And now for the rest of the folk, y’know, royalty and the like.

Telegraph - Prince Charles at biggest ever Gallipoli service

Prince Charles and leaders from Australia and New Zealand have been attending a memorial service to mark the 130,000 lives [...]

Categories: History

Before I get started, I want to mention that I think Katie Couric is abysmal, bad for television, and embarrassing to the country.

NYT - ‘Today’ Seeks Yesterday’s Glory, By ALESSANDRA STANLEY

NBC executives seem to think that viewers have grown bored with “Today” and want more gimmicks and pizazz. But if that were true, [...]

Categories: Entertainment

This had me in fits.

the stupid shall be punished - Flashback

I saw a commercial on TV tonight where they are bringing back the old Oscar Mayer song from 25 years ago (”My bologna has a first name…”). That caused a flashback to a song we used to sing in Nuke School: [...]

Categories: War and Peace