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Omaar - may be I'm being woefully naive, but that just sounds like paranoid self-aggrandisement on his part. Whatever his beliefs, he was simply not important enough to assassinate.

Loved the book when I read it - but it's been a while (7 years?). And now Richard Linklater is making a film of it with Keanu R (boo!), Robert Downey Jr (ray!), Woody & Winona (hmmmm). Looks like he's doing some weird-ass animation over it as well. Which could either be fantastic (ala Manga) or...

And don't even mention that f***er Howard Marks around me.

Have mixed feelings about HST. It's not him so much as his fans. "He writes about drurgs. He, he. He's rilly kewl cuz he writes about drurgs." The number of f***ed-up idiots who have told me me how great Fearing & Loathing in LV is thru a veil of drool is truly depressing. Steven "Wanker"...

Never understood why he thought that Kula Shaker and other rubbish britpop was the right soundtrack to the invisibles Coz he's a closet hippy really. The best bits of DP were nicked from Borges, I reckon! Maybe, but GM could do better dialog. Did you ever read Kill yr Boyfriend? possibly the...

GM is a fantastic reprocessor of other people's ideas (e.g. PKD, RAW, MLK, JFK, other Americans known by 3 letter acronyms). Which is, oddly enough, what he once called Alan Moore. I kinda lost track of him around the time of The Filth - which seemed like a Chris Morris re-run of The...

Attitudes towards Iran Economist article GMF survey

Invading Iran - bad idea. Iran having nukes - also a bad idea. They are surrounded by places much more likely to attack them then they are to invade. True of many countries - is it a good enough reason to possess nukes? Iran has the lowest voting age in the world - if they choose nuclear...

Is Your Record Really Necessary? Don't You Know There's A (Pop) War On? Or alternatively... You kids have it so easy nowadays, you don't know you're born! When I were your age, I were down the studio working 18 hours a day on me first EP. I were lucky if I saw daylight. Yes, we need...

a constant reminder of capitalism's ability to swallow up everything into it Well, yeah. Except that I don't buy the model of capitalism as this omnivorous Thing that consumes everything, this Totalising/Totalised Enemy. Capitalism is not one thing. It is a multitude. If you take capitalism...

Why do you think this MBM? (just wanting some elaboration on your insights.) For many of the reasons given in Sphaleotas initial post. The sheer volume of patents produced and the "mission creep" of patents in software and business processes in some jurisdictions is overwhelming the existing...

Suggest taking this out from the "Elections in Iraq" thread as I see this as worthy of a separate thread. Can anyone describe viable alternatives to democracy?

Global communism is something better. And what do we mean by "communism" here in regard to the management of the political aims of differing interest groups? K-punk's basic beef with democracy seems to be its susceptibility to control by small, self-perpetuating cliques (elites). How does...

Having said all this... K-punk: In that case, do we replace the democractic process with something else? And if so, how? I do not see the democratic system as flawless - but I do not have the imagination to think up something else better. Some minor comments: The ethocide in Iraq, like that...

Mutiny - "Virus" First heard this (or maybe a remix) on a Kode9 comp in 2000. Then on daytime Radio 1 6mths later? How weird was that track?

Dr. Jack Van Impe Oh, that homosexual heathen. Left = Liberal Pinko Behind = Ass Fairy Left Behind = Liberal Pinko Ass Fairy Nonsense See, it's right there In FRONT OF YOUR EYES!!! If your sight has not been occulded by the dark forces of SATAN! My book series will be so much better. It...

Well, we need to invade Iran obviously. But why stop there? Let's keep on spreading the love. North Africa, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia. Southall. That halal butcher in Flushing, Queens. Three little words that bring joy to my heart and a massive rush of blood to my cock...

So the problem is not with choice per se but bad faith on the part of certain groups ("we offer you a choice we already know is not a real choice"). So what do we do about it? Esp. in regards to education. Ban private schooling? Assign pupils to schools at random? I'm not being flippant.

A mate of mine is a scouser of pakistani heritage. He lived in London for a while and then went to live in New York. In 2000, I went to visit him and I asked him why he stayed there. In the UK, he told me, he - as a member of a racial minority - was merely tolerated. In NYC, it was the other...

I dunno, I preferred their old stuff. The Hyperstition thing feels a bit "Dungeons and Dragons" to me. And the anal retentive in me has to correct Mr Reynolds - Col. Kurtz disappeared up-river into the Cambodian jungle.