To all the American liberal bien-pensants who mock Bush for his pronunciation of nuclear here’s a question: how do you pronounce aluminium?
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PC World Scam
PC World has what it calls a Collect@Store deal for some of its offers. When I tried to pick up a Toshiba A300-1bz laptop, it turned out that the only laptops the offer applies to are ex-display or refurbished. The Currys website says that: the PC World website doesn’t, which is sharp practice at least [...]
Knowledge makes you despise them
The 55-second clip, on Number 10’s YouTube site, was created after nearly 50,000 people backed a call for the Top Gear presenter to be prime minister.
a Downing Street spokesman stressed the film was a joke, and had not cost any extra money to make.
“A member of staff put it together in a spare half-hour.”
BBC, [...]
Andrew Sullivan’s Moralising
Some evangelicals tout Obama’s family values. The contrast with the once-philandering, adulterous divorcé running for the GOP goes unstated:
Andrew Sullivan, Christianists For Obama
Sullivan usually has little time for evangelicals interfering in politics, despite his own obsession with politics and Catholicism. When it comes to evangelicals for Obama, though, Sullivan repeats their snide insinuations and adds [...]
Injun Trouble
The Denver Art Museum has on display a poorly executed but anthropologically interesting painting called, ‘The Cutting Scene, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony‘, by George Catlin:
Interior of a Mandan timber medicine lodge depicting the limp bodies of two young Native American males hoisted in the air with ropes attached to wooden splints inserted through the muscles in [...]
State-sponsored Islam in the UK
The British government is to fund a board of Islamic theologians in an attempt to sideline violent extremists…Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said it was government’s job to support Muslim leaders on controversial issues.
The BBC, Government funds Muslim thinkers
It’s absolutely fine by me if Muslim leaders wish to get together to discuss how they might [...]
Swimming segregation
Hot on the heels of Home Secretary Harriet Harman’s proposal to legalise sex discrimination in employment comes news of my local council’s non-white swimming sessions:
A council has been fiercely criticised for holding ethnic-minority only swimming sessions.
Wolverhampton City Council employs special life-guards and instructors for the sessions, which are open to the city’s black and Asian [...]
The Use of English
This almost illiterate answer in an English exam:
If he wasent doing enthing els heel help his uncle Herry at the funfair during the day. And had stoody at nigh on other thing he did was invent new rides.
“Becoues he invented a lot of new rides he won a prize. He didn’t live with his mum [...]
Gwinnett’s Spawn
Button Gwinnett was one of the lesser-known signatories to the Declaration of Independence. He moved from Wolverhampton to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1762.
It appears he left behind some other Gwinnetts. Councillor Malcolm Gwinnett, from Wolverhampton, is reported as having some very illiberal views on photography in public.
The story goes like this: a father of two [...]
Whose job is it to raise your children
“We are not going to solve society’s problems. People have to do that on their own …[I]f you can’t get your kids to eat vegetables, why is it my job?”
From the Cato Institute’s blog McDonald’s CEO on Globalization and Eating Your Vegetables
As the blog post goes on to suggest, McDonald’s may well try to anticipate [...]