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WikiLeaks: the sound of a stable door slamming
Dorothy Parker, LCD Soundsystem, Paul Auster, Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Hendrix, Billie Holiday, Muhammed Ali, MC5, Hunter S. Thompson, Blondie, Joel & Ethan Coen, Bruce Springsteen, Marilyn Monroe, Johnny Depp… At times such as these, when America … Continue reading
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More neo-con fuckwittery
I am sure we were all aware that the neo-con world-view was not something you would want your best friend to start espousing over a drink at the end of a long working day, for fear you would have to … Continue reading
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How tabloids work
Anton Vowl nails it here. Almost sounds to me like he has bugged one of their editorial meetings, except that of course, no reputable media source would get involved in that kind of behaviour, would they? There must be some … Continue reading
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Sugar and spice
Once again, Grace Dent has written the kind of column that should have all intelligent people running around the room cheering and air-punching. I had only made it as far as this paragraph: Sotomayor spent 2010 transforming judicial thought on … Continue reading
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No Alanis, this is ironic…
This blog hates many things, as the name suggests. Top of the all-time shit-list though, is the British tabloid “news”paper known as The S*n. This earlier post explains why. Now, as much as I love to hate, there are many … Continue reading
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Iceland gets its mojo back
Go on, admit it, you were all set to hate them forever for ruining your holiday and stranding you in Bali… … and then they go and do this. If it weren’t for the price of booze, I suspect most … Continue reading
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A warning to children
Children, do not bully the weird kids at school, for they may grow up to be a Treasury secretary and exact a most terrible vengeance on us all. — Picture borrowed from here
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Why Labour lost
Following a defeat or set back it is natural to contemplate what went wrong, human nature having developed this tactic to avoid repeating mistakes forever. One of my favourite and oft-quoted pieces of wisdom is that one, sometimes attributed to … Continue reading
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How much??!
They spent over three hundred grand on the CPS website. Julia spent the square root of feck all on ten minutes hate. Which one do we think looks better? Think I might change tack and start tendering for government IT … Continue reading
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