Being 'into politics '

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i think i'm getting 'into politics'

This is exactly how I got into politics too.

 

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she's craner's ideal woman if only she wasn't a frothing mad Islamophobe and also dead

She went a bit crazy at the end, but I have an edition of her early interviews with people like Kissinger and Khomeini and it's amazing. So I like her as well.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

I have an edition of her early interviews with people like Kissinger and Khomeini and it's amazing

no doubt when she was on it she was on it

if only she'd had a sideline career in the 70s starring in giallo films you'd be all set

 

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[luka]

what is that? and if they are in LA why is she reading/posing with the Telegraph?

 

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Conrad Black and his wife Barbara Amiel who supposedly led to his corruption and downfall due to her luxurious spending habits. She has just written and published a memoir called Friends and Enemies, which is supposed to be amazing.

 

[luka]

"behind the downfall of every Great Man is an evil, conniving woman" as Sufi once said to me

 

[Mr. Tea]

"behind the downfall of every Great Man is an evil, conniving woman" as Sufi once said to me

Is that a Feminist Principle of the Internet, do you suppose?

 

[IdleRich]

what is that? and if they are in LA why is she reading/posing with the Telegraph?

Cos he owned The Telegraph?

 

[luka]

craner has just explained that yep

 

[IdleRich]

He didn't say that part though - that's why I stepped in.

 

[luka]

he didnt thats true. but i did know who black was, just didnt know what he looked like.

 

[IdleRich]

I get that. I'm terrible with faces. But I just couldn't bear to leave that question dangling unanswered when I knew the answer...

 

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[version]

L to R: Spengler, Stantz, Venkman.

 

[Mr. Tea]

L to R: Spengler, Stantz, Venkman.

Who's Venk(wo)man? She looks like the archetypal cranerian siren.

 

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There is some hilarious hyperventilating going on about Suzanne Moore being "bullied" off the Guardian today.

Poor woman. But who knows? Maybe, with a bit of luck, she'll be able to write a book about her experience? Fingers crossed.

 

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This is one of the funniest ones:



"Write a column"!

 

[boxedjoy]

"Bullied" is a funny way of spelling paid off due to budget cuts. Especially in the context of the paper's three trans employees who quit in protest at the sustained TERF positions.

 

[version]

That shot of Peggy from Mad Men with the juicy comment about missing "SOME of the people" and not being able to say much more for now... I hate the way social media's encouraged people to market themselves. You can picture Moore on her phone or laptop trying to think how best to word it, what 'cool' picture to use, imagining the shocked and intrigued responses. Everything's a branding exercise.