I’m very fond of Knell’s Second Law:
When contentious subjects are being discussed, an individual’s knowledge of the subject under discussion is inversely proportional to their willingness to loudly make authoritative-sounding statements.
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In America, it would be unthinkable for a pregnant woman to drink. To be seen doing so in public might even invite hostile comment from perfect strangers, and the absolute rule against drinking is regularly alluded to in American popular culture. Yet in other countries the rule is hardly so absolute. As the BBC notes, [...]
The Washington post hardly ever gives context for its stories – in fact, I’ve never seen them put a paragraph like this after a story, until today:
Editor’s Note: How much effort the Bush administration made in going after Osama bin Laden before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, became an issue last week after former [...]
Not for the first time in its life, Tom and Jerry is the subject of censorship. In the mid-twentieth-century, the target was violence, and the campaign in America led to those rather strange cartoons in which Tom and Jerry were fond friends. I’m grateful to PD for pointing me in the direction of [...]
As an experiment, I’ve added a “no comment” section, which I shall use to post links and the like upon which I have no real comment to make, but which I think you might find interesting or useful. On the main website, these will appear on the left of the main text – for [...]
Every year the press run a story about who has been “left in charge” while the PM takes a summer holiday. Of course, its barely a story – tolerated by Downing Street, one suspects, because it distracts attention from the fact that the Prime Minister is actually taking a holiday – since in this [...]
While I have always felt that the intellectual case in favour of St Hilda’s College admitting men was extremely strong, I did not think that I would see that day come nearly so soon. Now that it has, I find the traditionalist in me is fighting my intellect!
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