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Guns! Guns! Guunnnnsss!!!! 16 Jan 2013 | 02:44 pm
Did you know that, in the USA, it's perfectly legal to take a loaded gun onto a train? I didn't, but I'm not surprised. The power of the American gun lobby is so immense that the only way its influenc...
Truly Horrible People 15 Jan 2013 | 11:00 pm
I walked to the shops through the park this morning, and the snow on the ground and on every bough and branch looked pretty good in the winter sunshine. I even found myself whistling 'Give It Up' by K...
The Just World and Robert Browning 15 Jan 2013 | 03:13 pm
The other night I was in bed reading poetry, because that's how I roll. Browning I return to now and again, a few times a year, simply because he's one of the cleverest but also most baffling Victoria...
Guess the book... 15 Jan 2013 | 01:32 am
If you're in any doubt, full story is here.
Power to all our friends 14 Jan 2013 | 03:23 pm
No, it's not a post about Sir Cliff. Just as well. I was browsing the Sci-Tech bit of the BBC site and guess what I saw? A nice, optimistic headline! UK tidal power has huge potential, say scientists...
Asbestos may be completely harmless 13 Jan 2013 | 02:25 pm
The fact that Australia is being somewhat overcooked leads me once again to ponder whether they'll have to evacuate Sydney before climate change deniers stop being irresponsible arseholes. But of cour...
The Year of the World 13 Jan 2013 | 01:24 pm
When I was a lad in junior school (back when they had junior i.e. middle schools) there was this thing. It was intended to give us some perspective. A teacher would tell us that scientists believed t...
US Government Plans Death Star... 12 Jan 2013 | 04:39 pm
Because if a government issues an official denial, the project must be well underway, amirite? And that's a perfectly good excuse to run this.
Running dog lackeys of capitalism etcetera 11 Jan 2013 | 05:36 pm
It's sometimes claimed that this sort of thing is unbelievable at a time of economic crisis. No, it's perfectly believable. Conservative MPs were the most likely to believe they were underpaid, accor...
There's a lot of it about 11 Jan 2013 | 03:01 pm
Originality never bothered our ancestors much. This was especially true of storytelling, where folk around the campfire would shout: 'Hey, Berk, tell us the tale of how Snarky and Bilebum went hunting...
