26 March 2011

There he goes again

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Oh, shut up already, Mr. Smarty-Pants ! "And then there’s the British experience. Like America, Britain is still perceived as solvent b...

A helpful flowchart

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It may not help you understand what to do about Libya, but it will help you understand . . . Republicans .
24 March 2011

Does not compute

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If there is one thing I understand less than people who lie to get us into a war it's the wilful delusion of those who are determined to...
20 March 2011

Hitting bottom

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I've seen little point in blathering about Japan. Anything I might say would be redundant, reductive or derivative. Until now. Certain...
13 March 2011

I would prefer to be wrong

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But I fear I won't be . It's already looking perilously late to get our collective asses, whom the Guardian is correctly exhorting ...
10 March 2011

The hits keep coming

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Whatever one thinks of whatever political philosophy he seems to think he espouses, you can't deny the fact that Scalia is a mean-spirit...
06 March 2011

Not such an Inside Job?

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Following up on an earlier post , after the Oscars comes the inevitable nitpickers . They have a point: the film is simplistic. Yes, lots ...

Obama needs to rethink this

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From the former chief prosecutor at Gitmo . I wonder if he has to resort to finding some inches in a UK paper because U.S. papers still don...

Trying to summon the eloquence appropriate to the occasion . . .

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This guy is such a dick .
05 March 2011

How will we know when to vote Republican?

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I just noticed the terrorists have won. The DHS has decided to scrap the colour-coded alert scheme , effective 27th April. It's a good...

Annoying

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He's really pissing me off - being right the way he is all the time : "The clear and present danger to recovery, however, comes fro...

Chicken

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Things looking to turn ugly in Libya . The west's powerlessness to do anything - even as little as impose a no-fly zone with or without...
28 February 2011

Great news!

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. . . for Rupert Murdoch . Soon he can put all that unpleasantness behind him. The " plurality and independence of news provision ...
26 February 2011

The Realpolitik of Naïve

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Okay – I really don’t know how sensible or horrible the “Deal in the Desert” was . Maybe on some level it made sense at the time. For the...

How it's done

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An excellent dissection on a random day of how NewSpeak works . It's a time-honoured tradition . If you haven't, you should book-ma...
20 February 2011

Finance is too important to be left to the financiers

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An excellent film - a must see. By and large, Inside Job accurately portrays the conflicts of interest inherent in the political, academic...
19 February 2011

"The question is: do we have a shadow government, and who are those intelligent minority that is guiding us through?"

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Gotta love it : Soros sees the humour, but eventually he can't help but get to the point: "You can tell the people falsehoods, and ...
17 February 2011

This is news?

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Long ago I reserved a special place in hell for Colin Powell . Now Colin is publicly whining about how shocked, shocked, shocked he is that...

It's never too late

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My ongoing war against The Economist in respect of its mostly lamentable coverage of U.S. politics ebbs and flows. Lexington in particular,...
13 February 2011

Pay no attention. Carry on.

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The downside of the drama in the middle east is that it distracts from previous front page news that hasn't diminished in importance. In...