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“Hand-feeding is not appropriate to the species and is a grave violation of the animal protection laws,” said Frank Albrecht, an animal rights campaigner. “Legally speaking, the zoo should kill the baby bear. Otherwise it is condemning the bear to a dysfunctional life and that too is a breach of the law.” – spotted in timesonline by Dizzy March 20th, 2007 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
 None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free – Johann von Goethe. Truly words that should resonate in this age of the democratic centrist regulatory total state in which the majority actively collaborate with their own repression. March 19th, 2007 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
Freddie could have drowned out there An anonymous source at the Rex St Lucian hotel in St Lucia, discussing the fact that England’s cricket vice-captain Andrew Flintoff celebrated England’s stunning first up World Cup loss to New Zealand (in which Flintoff was out first ball) by having an eight hour bender, commandeering and then capisizing a small boat and having to be rescued at sea at 4am. Regardless of the England heroics the World Cup has turned out to be a fascinating event so far, with Bangladesh possibly announcing their coming of age in international cricket with a stunning victory over India, and Ireland celebrating St Patrick’s Day by knocking former champions Pakistan out of the tournament with a rather mind-boggling win. Personally I think another upset is on the cards today. England are capable of beating Canada. March 18th, 2007 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
Some libertarians act as if the thing that was wrong with Auschwitz was that it was a state enterprise rather than a public/private partnership – Antoine Clarke March 17th, 2007 | 43 comments - (Comments are closed)
The internet is only doing to politics what it has done to other industries: it disaggregates elements and then enables these free atoms to reaggregate into new molecules; it fragments the old and unifies the new. So in the end, the internet gives us the opportunity to make more nuanced expressions of our political worldview, which makes obsolete old orthodoxies and old definitions of left and right. – Jeff Jarvis, Why the internet will revolutionise politics March 16th, 2007 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
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Watching cricket is one of the best ways of avoiding working known to man – Someone from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) is worried about the impact the Cricket World Cup will have on the economy. March 12th, 2007 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
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Buying ‘Carbon Offsets’ is the 21st-century equivalent of buying Papal Indulgences – a salve to the consciences of the deluded for having committed an entirely fictitious sin dreamed up – rather conveniently – by the indulgence-peddlers themselves. A ‘Sin of Emission’, one could say… – Commenter Tanuki March 6th, 2007 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
The trouble is that once you haven’t won, the sense that you are gatecrashing somebody else’s party is overwhelming, and it hits you hard that the ‘somebody else’ is much more glamorous than you. – Dan Mazer, the writer of Borat on being nominated for an Oscar. More or less how I feel about life in general, really. March 5th, 2007 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Garbage In, Gospel Out – William S. Lind, discussing the operational philosophy underpinning US military intelligence. March 2nd, 2007 | 45 comments - (Comments are closed)
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. – Robert A. Heinlein, one of the world’s great science fiction writers and moggie-lovers. March 1st, 2007 | 36 comments - (Comments are closed)
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