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We had a Red Flag Day. No, it’s not a sale at Macy’s. Big fun waves carving a wall out of the beach. Pictures to follow.

We also took a shedload of stuff to the Salvation Army. No pictures to follow.

And got delivery of the huge Crate & Barrel furniture I’ve been having a nervous breakdown […]

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The carpet people came way early (idiot carpet lady says 10, 10.30, they’re here at 8.05) so I’m exiled by the pool, improperly sunscreened, huddled against the sun, finding out my furniture won’t come until at least tomorrow and thinking I might have to stay an extra week. And the chairs I’m supposed to be […]

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Steyn Online - THE WEST’S TWO-TIER SISTERHOOD

At the time Ms Faludi was detecting patriarchal oppression in my NR prose, the Bush/Blair patriarchal phallocracy was busy liberating Afghanistan, a country where women were forbidden by law from feeling sunlight on their faces. When I used to point that out in speeches, huffy western feminists […]

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The Times - The year of the Paris Hilton tax LA Notebook: America’s estate tax will leave the rich watching their backs, by Chris Ayres

I say bizarre because this 45 per cent tax, levied against estates worth more than $2 million, will be repealed in 2010 - when President Bush’s tax-cutting legislation expires - […]

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Woah!

Telegraph - Is Hillary Clinton running out of time? By Toby Harnden

History was still about to be made. “If people have doubts about a woman, they should look at Margaret Thatcher or Angela Merkel or other women who have been leaders of important countries - Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, my late friend Benazir […]

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The Times - Ken Livingstone’s Record The first in our series assessing the mayoral candidates

Between now and the election on May 1, The Times will be assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each of the main candidates vying to be Mayor of London. We will then endorse one. Ken Livingstone, as the incumbent, will […]

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The Times - No, you’re not a ‘young adult’ Parents are abdicating their responsibilities towards children aged 11 to 16, by Libby Purves

A few fun tidbits:

If I really wanted to upset you I would call this phenomenon cultural paedophilia.

Which is a pretty good line.

And apparently it’s denying children’s human right to participate fully […]

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And I thought the mouth full of rats was tasteless.

Curtsy: Mark Steyn.

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Peter found this last night, and it just slays me. Peter narrating the different values is an added bonus available only to me, I’m afraid. He does all the voices.

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That Dave Lee guy again: EARTHQUAKEEEEEE!!!!

Lincoln turns to Facebook. Friggin hilarious!

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This makes it official. The red velvet Santa hat was only a hint.

Telegraph Blogs - Holy Smoke - Pope’s new look: pre-Tridentine baroque, by Damian Thompson

An amazing sartorial revolution is under way in the Vatican. Benedict XVI has junked the trendy tat worn by recent Popes, and on Palm Sunday will wear brand […]

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…Used to be Ireland.

The Sunday Times - The forces driving the middle class into exile It is hard not to suspect that educated people are leaving because they are giving up on this country, by Minette Marrin

According to new figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Britain is going through the biggest […]

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Telegraph - The Fayed Book of Nursery Rhymes (Part II), by Craig Brown

Best this time:

Georgie Porgie pudding and pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry When the boys came out to play, Georgie Porgie phone his official spokesman And say, those other boys, they did […]

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Telegraph Blogs - John McCain too busy to meet Brown

You have to laugh. John McCain has just pulled out of his trailed meeting with the PM on Friday, citing new diary commitments. Being snubbed by the potential next President of the United States will not be the PM’s idea of a joke.

They said […]

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