April 2009 Entries

Now for some Greg Martin

Posted under: Miscellaneous
Posted on: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:02 PM
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Read Hitchens (the other one)

Posted under: Politics
Posted on: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:55 PM
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Comment: re: Thai king Under monarchy you are a subject not a citizen part 2

Posted under: Politics, Feedback
Posted on: Monday, April 27, 2009 2:15 PM
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BBC: Bill set to expose gender pay gap

Posted under: Gender Issues, Politics, Feminism
Posted on: Monday, April 27, 2009 10:44 AM
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Change, progressive, regressive, what?

Posted under: Politics
Posted on: Saturday, April 11, 2009 4:34 AM
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A disgusting meme is spreading

Posted under: Politics
Posted on: Friday, April 10, 2009 11:59 PM
4 comments

An adventure in intellectual vacuity

Posted under: Gender Issues, Feminism
Posted on: Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:57 AM
2 comments

A government built on empathy will ultimately degrade those it seeks to help

Posted under: Gender Issues, Politics, Rape, Pornography
Posted on: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 7:44 PM
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The umbrella in particular is remembered as the symbol of the nineteenth century’s disturbing obsession with individualism. In Bellamy’s utopia, umbrellas have been replaced with retractable canopies so that everyone is protected from the rain equally.
“In the nineteenth century,” explains a character, “when it rained, the people of Boston put up three hundred thousand umbrellas over as many heads, and in the twentieth century they put up one umbrella over all the heads.”