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- I'm glad I've been reminded about retro-direct bike drives this morning by a Make Article. It seems remarkably dooable, and offers the endless amusement of confusing people when you propel a bike forwards by pedaling backwards. It means figuring out how to mount two BMX-style freeweels onto one hub. I've a notion how to do it but I suspect I'll ( Read more... )
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I was looking at the views of the candidates for Norwich, on a range of issues on They Work For You
Only the Greenie, the UKIP bloke and somebody from the Christian Party (Proclaiming Christ's Lordship) bothered to reply. Of the three, Mr UKIP is comedy gold, seriously.
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On account of Crewe_and_Nantwich last year, I had the notion that by-elections were noisly ructious affairs, fun to watch in a gladitorial sense. Even if party workers no longer get drunk and throw bricks at each other, it'd still be interesting to be involved in one, at least to the extent of being co-located ( Read more... ) -
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George Monbiot says British politics is broken, because politicians are mostly scumbags.
Hazel Blears knees him in the unmentionables for saying it...
We need people standing for office, not carping on the sidelines
Monbiot reaches for an ice axe...
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I'm happy to join in the general rejoicing.
But may I venture to suggest that America will only have truely consigned racial issues to the history books when there is a Republican African-American president ( Read more... ) -
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The Guardian 22 April...
Cameron's lead cut in latest ICM poll
- Con - 39, Lab - 34, LD - 19, Oth - 9
Daily Telegraph 25 April...
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The who I would vote for if I was American meme.
PS Who exactly is Bill Richardson?
79% Bill Richardson
77% Mike Gravel
75% Barack Obama
73% John Edwards
71% Chris Dodd
71% Dennis Kucinich
70% Hillary Clinton
68% Joe Biden
33% Ron Paul
33% Mitt Romney
32% Rudy Giuliani
32% Tom Tancredo
31% John McCain
27% Mike Huckabee
26% Fred Thompson
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You know it's getting bad when even the right-wing press is saying the war is lost. link
Of course, a good bit of that is the Telegraph going after Blair by proxy, by attacking Bush and the neo-cons. But even so...
You just have to read the history of a Western power winning a war against a guerrilla insurgency to realise how far we are away from ( Read more... )
