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It's ridiculous to compare Obama being on an education board with Will Ayers with Ron Paul putting racist newsletters out himself. It would only be a valid comparison if Obama was once a member of the Weathermen himself, as Paul appears to be a racist HIMSELF, not having once had meetings with one.

And I do believe the conspiracies about major news outlets deliberately ignoring Ron Paul. Look at this article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/05/us-usa-campaign-newhampshire-poll-idUSTRE8030WR20120105 Rick Santorum comes in third with 8% is the story. Ron Paul isn't mentioned, even...

The right does describe anything they don't like as "unconstitutional" or "unAmerican". And it is daft to hold the Constitution's more quaint provisions in such high regard. But the first amendment -- freedom of speech -- and the prevention of cruel and unusual punishment are obviously still...

I'm not saying Huntsman is Julius Caesar, but he's certainly a more credible option than any of the others. The closeness to Obama is obviously a problem, but also indicates a certain level of rationality, compared with people who think he's a foreign Muslim socialist.

I was explaining to someone on Facebook, half-jokingly, that I would contact my MP (Tessa Jowell) and ask her to address the housing minister regarding letting agents' fees. For the record, they hack me off tremendously, and I'd like them to be made illegal. As a technically homeless person...

Hey man, like your comments about the GOP primaries. Where are you living in the US?

Obama won such a momentous victory in 2008 that it was clear it would carry him through to a second term, providing there were no real howlers, which there haven't been. The "seven things" he wanted to achieve mostly have been, if only in the faintest sense, like healthcare reform and banking...

Two-Lane Black Top is an eerie road movie starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson, with hardly any diaogue or music. I really enjoyed the all-American, pop-art imagery, but was mainly drawn to it by its writer -- Rudolph Wurlitzer, who wrote a fantastic western novel called Drop Edge of Yonder...

I follow my favourite porn star, just to check if she's ever coming to London. If she ever does make that announcement, I'm going to track her down and see if she fancies it.

The Last Broadcast I thought The Last Broadcast was brilliant until the final five minutes, when it becomes totally implausible and schlocky. As with many horror / supernatural films, the makers clearly felt the need to provide an ending that solved the mystery. It would have been better...

On Sympathy It's natural for any human to feel sympathy for someone who has to fuck a pig, even a despised politician. But while politicians seem to more like autocued ciphers every year, which has led a glut of post-modernists to harp on about how 'unreal' the whole thing is, we know that when...

The Documentarian If it's documentaries you're after, check out this site, run by a guy I know: http://thedocumentarian.tumblr.com/ In particular, I'd highly recommend Marjoe, an expose of a former child preacher in the US, and the film about Michael Alig, whatever that's called. But most of...

Nice one Benny. Er sorry that was actually IdleRich

There are only a few rumours at this stage -- mainly on message boards and Twitter -- that Gary Speed hanged himself on Sunday after receiving a call from a reporter on Saturday night about his sex life. It is also rumoured that the story was to out him as being gay, or having homosexual...

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'Bonkers' by Dizzee Rascal is also a contender, obvs.

I was having a conversation about misogyny in music a while ago, and my point was that a lot of pop music is misogynistic. Besides the blatant and well-documented chauvinism of so much hip-hop and early reggae (plus all other forms of xenophobia), rock & roll is also littered with, and permeated...

I'm going for 'Sue' by BJM. Manics, err, no thanks, even if it's their supposedly better earlier stuff. Gravediggaz: Mos' def'. Been listening to this a fair bit recently. Their first album is killer.

So I'm compiling a mixtape for the newly refurbished Substance.tv website, and I've decided to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Brian Jonestown Massacre's Thank God For Mental Illness album by putting together a mix of songs about mental illness. I'm not just looking for any old shit that...

Honest Jon's Honest Jon's in Notting Hill is the best record shop I've found for world music. Owned by Damon Albarn, but take no notice of that.