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A US soldier talks about Iraq

Posted on 3 Feb 2010 | Leave a comment

Thanks to Antony Loewenstein for this, from Winter Soldier testimony in 2008:

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Try not to read the comments, at least not the illiterate ones.

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Productivity Commission’s recommendations rejected

Posted on 11 Nov 2009 | Leave a comment

As they said over at Alien Onions:

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St Barry – ora pro nobis

Posted on 30 Oct 2009 | Leave a comment

This is on the White House blog, with no apparent comic intention:

St Barry

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Why not to hold your mobile near your ear

Posted on 22 Oct 2009 | Leave a comment

This has been up on YouTube for a year, but maybe you haven’t seen it either.

Added later (not very much later): Snopes says it’s rubbish. Sorry!

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Sociopaths in suits

Posted on 15 Jul 2009 | Leave a comment

I don’t have anything intelligent, or even probably intelligible, to say about the Productivity Commission’s recommendations about parallel imports of books. Except maybe WRITE TO YOUR LOCAL MEMBER. But I liked this piece from Henry Rosenbloom’s blog:

This is how a civilisation commits suicide these days: it invites sociopaths in suits to dismantle its culture.

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