I’m indebted to ALB for pointing me to the Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud.
Should people be able to forget that they worked for oppressive regimes and just get on with their lives? And does the answer depend on whether that regime was left or right wing?
I don’t know which is more terrible, the fact that urinals have been suggested as a cause of bullying or that it was some public servant’s job to write such silly proposals.
The NHS is happy to let you go blind in one eye. A group of doctors has called the idea of free health care in the UK a mirage. They are right.
“The Internet” went mad yesterday when it thought that Sheryl Crow had suggested a limit on the use of toilet paper. I feel justified in saying “the internet” when even the BBC reports such a silly story. I never thought that the original blog (or is that “bog”?) post sounded entirely serious. There are several [...]
I was going to write something about the French electoral system, but the Economist has already said exactly what I wanted to point out.
I recently came across a song by Toby Keith which is titled, “American Soldier”. One of the things I find interesting about the lyrics is that, in the version on his album Shock’n Y’all at any rate (there are various other versions of the song), it is unclear until fairly close to the end of the song that it is about a soldier at all.
It is amusing to hear that Microsoft are attacking Apple’s iPhone (which has yet to be launched), on the basis that it features proprietary hardware and software. Microsoft are the last to encourage interoperability with their own programs, whatever their PR machine might say.
After two rather depressing posts, I wanted to post something lighter. I found it in the form of Angryalien.com, a website where famous films are compressed into thirty-second animations featuring a cast of bunnies. It’s not quite clear why it works as a concept, but it does.
I said in this post that no high-profile shootings of this type had been ended by members of the public exercising their Second Amendment rights. In fact, there have been some cases. The shootings at the Appalachia Law School was one such, although the fact that the students who tackled the shooter were also armed [...]