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The Times - Sure, we all want to save the world. But fiddling and tickling won’t do it. Alice Miles

I always want to ask those hippy types whether they walked to India or wherever it is they are eating banana pancakes that week, because it seems to me that you cannot profess a [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

I read this yesterday, and thought it was just hilarious, so meant to leave it for the end of the day, but didn’t, so now it’s getting buried at the beginning of today, for my sins.

The Times - Charles finds heaven as royal organic show hits the Punjab

The Prince of Wales was bringing [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

What a moron.

AP - Justice Scalia Chastises Boston Newspaper

The Boston Herald reported Monday the justice made “an obscene gesture, flicking his hand under his chin” in response to a question about whether lawyers might question his impartiality in matters of church and state… But Scalia said in his letter the [...]

Categories: Business & Media

FOXnews - Afghan Christian Convert Flees to Italy

Italy granted asylum Wednesday to an Afghan who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity, and Premier Silvio Berlusconi said the man was in the care of the Interior Ministry after arriving in Italy earlier in the day. … Anticipating [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Bruno Bozzetto - “Europe and Italy”

I was going to say I especially liked the landing, but then I though, hell with that, the whole thing’s freaking hilarious. Curtsy to CDR Salamander.

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Tim Blair - BIRD NOT TALKING (the updates)

We all have someone to project onto that rooster.

Categories: People and Current Events

You know, it amazes me. I’ve heard a couple headline updates on the radio today, with sound effects of the protests that “have turned violent” as “students” demonstrate against laws changed and you all know the rest. And none of them seem to want to train their expert, trained, inquisitive minds on this [...]

Categories: Business & Media

The Telegraph - Reforming the Lords - only fools rush in

By way of redress, he has now decided to resurrect the reform of the Upper House, begun in 1999 with the eviction of hereditary peers. However, any reform measure passed now will simply tackle the problem of a prime minister who sees patronage [...]

Categories: Politics

The Telegraph - The future is still orange

All this is a long way from those heady revolutionary days. Yet voters have been given a democratic chance to pass judgment on a government that has not met their expectations.

And why can’t we hold out until that happens in the Arab world before we pass [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Times - Barricaded from reality Time to pension off out-of-touch union leaders in Britain (and France)

(And the US)

There was a time when generous public sector pensions were defended as recompense for poor pay and conditions. Yet median-level full-time earnings in the public sector are £64 per week higher than the private sphere. It [...]

Categories: Business & Media

The Times - A class apart ‘Pleasure and leisure’ are not the sole points of further education

The plethora of fascinating courses offered by the average FE college is impressive. And allowing reflective fifty-somethings to attend classes on critical thinking, healthy eating and flower arranging, heavily subsidised by the State, may be a mark of [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Opinion Journal (yesterday) - Mr. Levin, Meet Ms. Rohbar If Yale’s president wants to educate a deserving Afghan, I’ve got just the woman for him. By John Fund

Makai Rohbar, an Afghan student whose family legally immigrated to New Haven in 2002, served as Ms. Joya’s translator for the evening. After Ms. Joya’s speech, I [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I’d never heard of this guy (speaking of which, see below), so his sudden label as the Press’ Favourite Neo onservative rather surprised me. I mean, surely they’re not plucking complete nobodies off the streets to make their Celebrity Spokesman Against Bush (2006, quarter 1, weeks 9 and 10)? So I read this:

RCP [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

These groups like CAIR, and the idiot politicians who are trembling before an illegal segment of society without voting rights, and everyone else that keeps tapping down conversation with big shovel-fulls of political correctness, are really asking for it.

Investor’s Business Daily - Religion Of Peace?

What better time for CAIR and other Muslim leaders [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Weird.

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs