Archives: 2006 March
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March 20th, 2006, No Comments
Let Them Eat….Nothing
The BBC reports that Israel is not only blocking Palestinians from making a living, it’s now blockading UN food aid from reaching the hungry. If, as Israel wants to insist, this is a war, then starving the populace would appear to be against the letter and the spirit of the Geneva Convention [...]
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March 20th, 2006, No Comments
The Bottom Line
Here’s lefty blogger K-Punk, in full-on collision with the Business Mentality as manifested in academia.
On the one hand I feel like saying “Nyer nyer, now you know what the rest of us have been dealing with”, on the other I can’t help but admire his detached observation of a phenomenon that would’ve had [...]
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March 20th, 2006, No Comments
How Long, Oh Lord, How Long?
The Labour Loans scandal just gets bigger and bigger. The chorus of formerly friendly voices is becoming deafening – Blair should go, and soon. The bloodhounds are circling No. 10 as more and information is leaked by disgruntled senior Labourites whom Blair deliberately excluded from the information loop. Even Deputy [...]
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March 18th, 2006, No Comments
Friday Saturday Lifeform Blogging -A Pigeon Blogs
St Patrick’s Day, and it’s a hard life on the streets of London for a flying rodent :
Pigeon?s Eye View
“Bit of a heavy one in the end last night – having slagged the plastic paddy pigeons I bumped into a few on Piccadilly Circus and ended up on the [...]
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March 18th, 2006, No Comments
How Very Nicely Circular.
The eagle-eye of Avedon Carol spotted this connection:
“I was just jumping from link to link earlier and ran into this 1999 wedding announcement: Emma Gilbey, an author and journalist, was married yesterday to Bill Keller, the managing editor of The New York Times. The Rev. Robert J. Kennedy performed the ceremony at [...]
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March 18th, 2006, No Comments
You Know The Writing Is on The Wall When…
…. Bush hires Nixon’s “I am not a crook” speechwriter.
Tags: US Politics Bush
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March 16th, 2006, No Comments
Geology Blogging
Late last year I posted about the Afar Depression and the continental rift splitting. Now Der Spiegel has noticed the story and the Huffpo has picked it up.
I told you geology was hip.
Tags: Geology
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March 16th, 2006, No Comments
Moron Modes
“You think you know about living in an exclusive gated community. . . maybe down south in Florida? Well, you don?t know stuff. Let me tell you about the worlds MOST exclusive, the world?s ULTMATE Gated Community, the Green Zone. The Gates of the Green Zone are protected by Abrams and Bradley, that is, [...]
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March 16th, 2006, No Comments
War On Women : Missouri Battlefront Report
We knew this would come….Hillary Clinton can try and do ‘bipartisan’Congressional deals on birth control all she wants, but we all know what they’re really up to – the fundies will not be happy until women shut up and get back in the kitchen. Clinton might as well [...]
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March 16th, 2006, No Comments
Revolution, One Snark At A time
Go Fug Yourself:
December 19, 2005
Random Fug II
This dress is somewhat unflattering, rather see-through, and wholly hideous — I mean, lady, I GET IT, you have breasts, and that’s great, but if you’re so determined to show them off then just call Lil’ Kim in prison and ask if you can [...]
