I can not sleep,
Either my mind is full, or my bladder is.

(Composed between 2 and 3 am. I'll sort out the syllables at sometime in the future).

"there is no-one alive today who would for a minute defend the practice of human ethnographic exhibitions."

No - they put them on TV and call them "documentaries".

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So, total state spending is falling by less than 4% over the next four years.

Discussion in More or Less.

Over one quarter of the world's population live below the $1.25/day poverty line.

I'm somewhere in the top 0.03% after taxes, etc (OK, 2011 numbers in a 2005 table, but it wouldn't change very much).

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Of course it is, because you do not have to pay any fees for degree courses (even if you're not German), and now they've started teaching in English....

I'm listening to a station that only plays music from the '80s. Do you really think that this is a good place to advertise anyone's "brand new album"?

Government 'planning to measure people's happiness'....

It's Felicific calculus :)

The Socialist Democratic Alliance party :)

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:)