More progress in the building of Eutopia on England’s green and pleasant land:
The British government is in talks to buy two prison ships to ease the current wave of overcrowding, according to the BBC. An RAF camp is also being considered as one of a number of options to temporarily ease the pressure. The Home [...]
Family Watchdog’s Google Maps hack shows you the bad apples. The red squares indicate convictions for offenses against children. I know you’d have to try pretty hard to not live or work somewhere relatively near a school in this town, but this seems like an alcoholic renting an apartment above a saloon.
Just wow.
As good a reminder as any of why I stopped watching CNN years ago.
The prognosis is grim (some reshuffling of ‘grafs by me):
BRITAIN is facing the first increase in crime for more than a decade and a 25% jump in the prison population to 100,000, a leaked Downing Street report reveals.
The confidential and unusually frank report from Tony Blair’s strategy unit also attacks the police for failing to [...]
Roman emperor Caligula wanted to make his favorite horse a consul, I suspect for two reasons: first, to indicate his lack of respect for Roman officialdom, and second, to indicate that he was totally bug-fuck crazy. From VDH’s Works and Days:
Does running for President allow a candidate to freelance at a time of war by [...]
All the wonderful uses your money is put to, on the Budget Graph.
Oh, The Horror.
I was poking around James Hudnall’s blog and came across his post The Censorship Factor. While I agree with James about O’Reilly’s ego (and, after a brief look around his blog, probably everything else), this Olbermann guy (whom I’d never heard of) comes off as just as much of a jerk as O’Reilly does, but [...]
I’m afflicted with sub-par mail services yet again. I imagine the thinking at dreamhost went something like this:
Moore’s law! Free software!
????
Profits!
My suggestions for 2: sufficient quantities of employees who know what they’re doing.
Because, you know, the underpants gnomes they’re relying on to run things now things just aren’t up to it.
Some jackass has built a car he intends to try to use to film inside of a tornado. I sense a Darwin Award Winner in the making.
Stanley Fish references Ann Althouse’s blog in an NYT article about Kevin Barrett, that “911 was an inside job” prof at UW, prompting an interesting response / discussion at Alhouse’s blog. Fish claims that the teaching (”teaching”) of any subject should be OK as long as one doesn’t cross the line into indoctrination:
Rather, the question [...]
More on that fabled American puritanical moral posturing Europeans hear so much about:
http://tjic.com/blog/…
More on that fabled European sophistication we hear so much about:
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/…
The EU is “the part of the world with the highest proportion of drinkers and the highest level of alcohol consumption,” the report begins.
Heh - just poking fun (sort of, anyway). Yesterday I [...]
The “Finished Installation” Zencart Setup page features some text that helpfully suggests other places you can go to learn more about Zencart.
There’s a link to the Zencart Wiki, which is OK (although once you get there you’ll see an apology for the fact that it’s not as helpful as it would be if there was [...]
The Secret Wars Re-enactment Society.
(but categorized correctly)
Annie Proulx, author of the short story that Larry McMurty adapted for the screen, whines:
The people connected with Brokeback Mountain, including me, hoped that, having been nominated for eight Academy awards, it would get Best Picture [...] We should have known conservative heffalump academy voters would have rather different ideas of what was stirring [...]
As far as I can recall, I’ve only been to a movie theater 9 times in the 21st century. Seven of those times have been to see a movie that was part of a franchise (Harry Potter, X-men, Ghost in the Shell). I’m planning on seeing V for Vendetta on the release day, or close [...]
Memo to Chicago Sun-Times: don’t put flash ads that send butterflies flitting around the page next to a Mark Steyn column.
Just don’t.