Took a few torpedoes amidships today. Two I can’t talk about but the third, the toothache, can be best described by saying they ran a battery of tests, sent me to the waiting room, brought me back in and instead of going back to the dentist’s chair, I was asked to sit in an armchair [...]
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Thanks again, Lord T – most topical this one, given current events: Not long ago there was a theory – Never attribute to malice what can be put down to stupidity. Basically it was saying that where we thought our ruling class was deliberately screwing us by destroying education, the economy, our freedoms, stealing our [...]
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Short post this morning, two quick stories: 1. Polanski : la victime demande l’abandon des poursuites I’m assuming you understand the French. Pretty clear choice. In my book it was a crime the way he did it but many would say it was a crime whichever way it was done, even if she’d consented. Having [...]
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Catherine Hakim, author of “Developing a sociology for the twenty-first century: Preference theory”, compared three competing theories of male dominance, preferring Goldberg’s and gave three reasons for her choice. 1. “The evidence is consistent with, and supports, Goldberg’s theory”. 2. Goldberg’s “is the only theory that can explain some of the more inconvenient facts about [...]
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Please find one instance in which I have backtracked and apologized for something I’ve written on this blog. The reason is that if you write something, you should: 1. first have thought it through before mouthing off; 2. checked all your sources; 3. be prepared to defend it; 4. believe in what you wrote in [...]
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Which of the seven songs do you like best?
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Hot off the press but kept back here until late afternoon because of the plethora of posts today: After day 8 of Jessica’s around the world voyage, she continues to make good progress and is slightly ahead of her scheduled 100 nautical miles per day estimates. “I woke up this morning to find a school [...]
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When was the last time you received a personal letter through the post? Not an email, not a bill nor even a postcard. A letter, maybe running over three or four pages, in finely formed copperplate and covering a variety of topics of mutual interest? When was the last time you wrote one to someone, [...]
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Unusual to start with a comment before the actual article but this one stood out: glad to see some elements of the … media actually reporting the truth. I commend you for your honesty in regards to the farce that is the UNHRC. Imagine letting a convicted child offender open a child care centre or [...]
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It’s so frustrating finding a guide to hardy indoor plants in the UK. The RHS is not much use online, except to offer a plantfind database and other UK sites are selling but not really advising. Almost all advice sites are U.S. or Australian – here, here and here, for example. Even when, in a [...]
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Beautiful: Not beautiful: Savages.
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The defence of the family and of the institution of marriage is simply not a solely Christian thing – it precedes that faith by thousands of years and is the cornerstone of all other societies to a greater or lesser extent. Read this for a summary of ancient civilizations in a nutshell. To defend the [...]
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Today’s report: “She should have southeasterly winds from Monday to Thursday of about 15-20 knots and maybe into the 20s. And she should have a shower or two but it should be basically fine.” Jessica said she had been making slow progress in her first week before reaching a “milestone” of 500 nautical miles yesterday. [...]
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Love that beard: Well, that was stirring, wasn’t it? Dearieme has left me little choice. It’s either Carmen, the Pearl Fishers or this to round up the evening: … which is as well because I was about to throw in some Offenbach.
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Direct Wikisteal: Saint Crispin’s Day falls on 25 October and is the feast day of the Christian saints Crispin and Crispinian (also known as Crispinus and Crispianus, though this spelling has fallen out of favour), twins who were martyred circa A.D. 286. It is a day most famous for the battles that occurred on it: [...]
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No doubt you’ve seen the Telegraph’s [in places] humorous take on Internet laws. They’re all right but one is just plain ridiculous: DeMyer’s Second Law of Internet Debating states: “ Anyone who posts an argument on the internet which is largely quotations, can be very safely ignored and is deemed to have lost the argument [...]
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Lord T goes all religious on Sunday: So far this year you have taken away my favourite celebrity Jade Goody, you have also taken away my favourite musician, Michael Jackson, my favourite dancer, Patrick Swayze, my favourite chef, Keith Floyd, and my favourite humanitarian, Dr. Norman Borlaug. Just so you know, my favourite politician is [...]
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Unfortunately, due to a mix-up of some kind, it appears that I am not down to do it this weekend, so sorry to readers who were shaping up to come and read it here. It was a case of two people getting their wires crossed and I was caught in the middle. To see this [...]
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It must be fairly obvious that this blog admires the pioneering spirit and is currently following the adventures of Jessica Watson in her round the world voyage on Pink Lady. It’s the Edmund Hillary principle and surely this is what keeps the human race going and gives meaning to our existence, apart from appreciating our [...]
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The only legitimate definition of marriage Dave Cole is a fine upstanding chap from the other side, so to speak and he ran a youtube, the gist which was that an 86 year old WW2 vet was asked a question by a woman at the polling place he voted last year: “Do you believe in [...]
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Well, it’s age you know. Maybe I’ll need to trade in [part ex] the Vanquish. Here are some pics of the new marque, courtesy of The Age: And here are some specs. Now, I’ll have to nip down the bank for that £389,000.
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Eva Taylor [remember her in her 90s, some weeks back?]: Is you ain’t or is you ain’t? From me – Kid Ory:
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She may have been intimately profiled by Annie Leibovitz in Vanity Fair but she claims she was a virgin up to her marriage and I say good luck to her. Why not? Contrast her intelligence with the chavs and other sheep or with the teenage unfortunates press-ganged into it for peer acceptance or because of [...]
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Do check out the new Economic Voice layout – it seems vastly better to me and is more accessible now. One of their first posts is on Cold Calling, with the news that: The US Investment management company Edward Jones is to sell its UK arm to Towry Law. Edward Jones has been operating in [...]
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Allowing broadband carriers to control what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success. —Vinton Cerf in testimony before Congress February 7, 2006 The issue of net neutrality is not that simple though. Broadly seen as a dispute between the technology and hardware providers against [...]
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Steeleye Span [don't adjust your screen - it's your eyes that have gone dark]: The Dubliners in suspect pose [those wacky lads]: My contribution this evening:
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Guestpost from the inimitable Lord T: Never trust a creature that grins all the time. It’s up to something. – Terry Pratchett Well it appears that it doesn’t apply to just Blair and his clone Cameron. It also applies to those much beloved Dolphins. Which incidently are the creatures Pratchett is referring to. It seems that [...]
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