Election-free links

Nov 08, 2004 08:11

Yes, we’ve all read them, but really, you need to read them again, really you do. The Very Secret Diaries and more. Via asheera.

Jihadi death threats reach the blogosphere.

What is wrong with the ‘obvious truths’ of environmentalism.

About Ulysses S Grant.

From internet scandal to career opportunity.

Another prominent scientist jumps off the global warming bandwagon. At the recent Adam Smith Club function, Bob Foster provided updates of his Climate Change made easy - it’s the Sun paper, a former version of which is up on the Lavoisier site. One tidbit from it: on 25 January 2003, the Independent environment editor was saying we’d freeze; by 2 May, we’d fry, with Antartica ‘the only place to live’. It’s all a bit We’ll all be rooned said Hanrahan.

More on the jihadist murder of Theo van Gogh. A Dutch blog on Dutch reactions. A clash of civilisations? Or not.

31% of unionists voted Coalition in 2004. The NSW unions are rebranding.

Same-sex marriage gains ground in Massachusetts. Saskatchewan becomes the seventh Canadian jurisdiction to allow same-sex-marriage.

From donut_fiend, a site on separation of church and state jurisprudence.

Crying for an ailing, murderous, kleptocratic gangster proves less than popular with the BBC’s listeners. Media bias and does Arafat have AIDS?

A long obituary for the founding President of the United Arab Emirates. He counts as a noble Arab ruler - he kept the joint oath among his brothers not to murder each other and the coup which brought him to power in Abu Dhabi was bloodless.

Hungary is withdrawing its 300 troops from Iraq, after the Iraqi election. The assault on Falluja is about to start. Sunni leaders have made an offer.

Meanwhile, awkward news from Islam.
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