nourishing obscurity

Dedicated to Amfortas:

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All of these cakes are made of cake, i.e. there are no plastic or wood additions:

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There are all sorts of ways to stop someone talking about a topic – put an injunction on publication, threaten the person with violence, pull the internet plug, suggest that bygones be bygones and it’s better for one’s health to just let the injustice go by without comment [especially when the person suggesting that course [...]

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Note the red and green arrows: Cameron has been on a mission to destroy the Conservative Party since 2007. So he joins with Miliband tonight to push through this abomination, despite the  wishes of a huge number of people, despite the wishes of his grassroots. On the other hand, Autonomous Mind asks and quite rightly, [...]

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Today is the Feast of Weeks – in our tradition, the day the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles. Whit Monday, the day after Whitsun, remained a holiday in the UK until 1971 when the movable holiday was replaced with the fixed Spring Bank Holiday in late May. Whit was the occasion for varied forms [...]

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It’s one thing Hollande riding roughshod over a nation and its adherence to its traditions, which by the demonstrations up and down the country shows the nation split down the middle with more against than for. Mariage gay: Hollande promulgue sans attendre

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When the Scots get their independence and England no longer has to subsidize them, the Scots south of the border are then in an interesting position.   They’re then foreigners along with the Romanians, Poles, Nigerians, Asians etc. Take a Scot who’s been here all his life, he’s paid into the national coffers, he even speaks [...]

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The three clips in this post from the What’s My Line series are fascinating for students of history specializing in the post war era.

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Let’s look at the story first of all, thanks Wiggia: First published in the DT and then trailed on Guido, this classic PC rhetoric from Radstocks Labour council leader is as good as it gets, they will however be flying the gay lesbian alliance rainbow flag alongside the Union one which I’m sure will go [...]

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Via Ian Parker-Joseph: This April 26, 2013, photo shows a billboard in Greeley, Colo. in which images of Native Americans are used to make a gun rights argument. The two billboards are causing a stir with some residents who say the image is offensive and insensitive. (AP Photo/The Greeley Tribune, Jim Rydbom)

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Love it. Château-Gaillard was the favorite castle of Richard the Lionheart (1188-1199) in Lower Normandy. It also received its present name when the king, beholding for the first time the castle built on his order with its shining white stone walls, double ramparts, pont-levis and thirteen strong towers, exclaimed: “Quel château gaillard” – “What a [...]

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Hoots, mon, ar coodnae resist reprinting it: Angry Scotsman to be released into community BRITAIN faces the prospect of yet another unemployed, angry Scottish person at large. ……….. As I’ll be busy most of tomorrow, allow me to issue my apology now.   I sincerely apologize for any offence to any Scots people of any clan [...]

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Is water the reason? Some look at the upheaval in Syria through a religious lens. The Sunni and Shia factions, battling for supremacy in the Middle East, have locked horns in the heart of the Levant, where the Shia-affiliated Alawite sect has ruled a majority Sunni nation for decades. Some see it through a social [...]

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If things we did growing up were in error, how far can one go down that path before nothing is good we knew and did? The heroes and villains become less able to be distinguished one from the other as one grows older. There is a point of view that the Boomers did it wrong, [...]

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