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Dec 22, 2006 08:59

Why not elf yourself?

Sweden’s mild Winter is doing dreadful things to gingerbread houses. A Swedish reviewer is in some bother for reviewing a book not yet written.

The President of Peru thinks coca leaves go great in salad.

Demotivation, the new craze in management. My favourite is: Consulting: If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.

Problems with proof in mathematics.

About the cave art of Western Europe: The glories of ancient Rome and Greece were but a blip compared to the great age of cave painting, which began about 32,000 years ago and lasted for roughly 20,000 years

Folk with low self-esteem apparently tend not to like twists at the end of mystery novels.

About the Tory tradition of modernising conservatism: Someone described a libertarian as being someone in favour of childless immortals. My personal and autobiographical definition of conservatism is a free marketeer with children

New York rated world’s politest city. The chances of a woman being raped in Oslo are now much higher than in New York. The requisite offensively stupid academic has already opined on the issue: Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes … Norwegian women must realize that we live in a Multicultural society and adapt themselves to it.”

So, you’re Britain’s most wanted man after stabbing and killing a policewoman. What do you do? Put on a niqab (full veil), pretend to be your sister and flee the country, leaving lots of bureaucrats to explain why it wasn’t their fault, no sirree. More.

Guardian readers are less likely to insulate their homes than readers of other newspapers. If one has the right attitudes, actions are much less important? The Guardian continues to be the haven for the compassionate class: every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.. It does not even make a certain brutal sense: According to the recent Stern report, worldwide aviation produces 1.6 per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions. (I believe that should read “by humans”.) About all that hysteria.

About why laws against Holocaust denial are a bad idea. About the Irving case. About fighting lies with truth. Plans to put Holocaust documents online in various languages including Arabic. About the hugely varied role of Arabs in the Holocaust and Axis persecutions of Jews.

An immigrant Russian Jew gay porn star and director has a few comments about Jimmy Carter’s latest book.

Zimbabwe’s suffering under Mugabe. And yes, it was better off as Rhodesia under Ian Smith: probably the most unmentionable political truth of our time--a black Zimbabwean newspaper columnist got himself into some trouble a few years ago writing come back Ian Smith, all is forgiven: things have go much worse since then. (Of course, saying white minority rule was better than that of a kleptocratic dictator slowly starving much of his country to death is not exactly setting a high benchmark. And the contrast with South Africa makes Mugabe’s performance seem even more vile.)

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