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Hey I'll admit to having a pretty confused and contradictory stance on Iraq and the election. It's a pretty confused and contradictory situation. I totally support the iraqi's right to resist the occupation of iraq, but I'm also appalled by the tactics of many resistance groups, and the extreme...

Are you refering to Unibroue (wittily referred to by my buddy and I whilst in montreal as unibrow)? They do make a really wicked apple beer...I'm not usually one for fruity/novelty beers, but that stuff is outstanding. Drinking that while smoking some apple-flavored tobbacco from a shisha (sp?)...

Ahh, beer. Personal expereince seems rather contrary to some people's here, in that I could drink beer all day and not really get too smashed. Though peeing is an issue. Not to mention the beer shits the next day... As for the canadian beer scene, agreed that labat blue and moslon canadian are...

Most of plastikman's (with a k!) albums are mixed together. Sheet One, Musik, and especially Consumed are all continuously segued and definitely built along the "journey" type structure of a mix. That journey being mostly of the "bad acid trip" type. Yay!

Mentioned upthread, this is an instance of synaesthesia, which is a well documented phenomenon of people experiencing sensations from one sensory modality (such as vision) when actually percieving things in a different sensory modality (such as sound). Also includes stuff like people who "see"...

Okay, also: So Allawi may not win, this is great. However, with America's biggest embassy in the world sitting right down the street, and many of Iraq's laws (especially those concerning the occupying army) already written by the Americans, again it's hard to see how this new gov't could be...

agree with Redcresent above, this is bullshit. Do you think the Iraqi's opinions of the US just popped fully formed out of a vaccuum when the US invaded? I've been on you for this ignoring-history thing before Oliver, so I figure maybe I should defer to a more authoritative source...Far Side...

C'mon, do you actually think that a "stable, free Iraq" is what they're going to get to vote for, rather than a dependant US client state? Because I'm sure it must have occured to some of these resistance groups that the election is much more a means of creating some international legitimacy for...

hohoho...don't worry I haven't gone completely over to the dark side (though to be fair I'm sure K-punk would reject both light and dark sides of the Force). In fact the main reason I wanted the Star Wars box set was becuase I figured that they would be good movies to watch when stoned with a...

Got the Star Wars DVD box set for Christmas and have been watching them now for the first time since I was about 15 or so...only problem is after reading all this endless Cold Rationalism stuff I just keep thinking that the Force is pretty much the total opposite of CR..."Trust your feelings...

C'mon people, no mention of Van Halen? Ya they ended up sucking pretty hard, but their first album? I mean, how hard does "Ain't Talkin 'Bout Love" rock? HARD! Not to mention the solo-madness of "Eruption"...

Ah shit. I actually was a bit hasty in posting that link, only skimmed the article and didn't realize the position it was coming from, nor that the whole SITE was devoted to that shit (last thing I want to do is give the bastards more traffic). my apologies. exercising my right to offend, i...

If my admittedly brief scanning of the article is correct, then Canada already has a somewhat similar law, banning "hate speech." It's more general though, banning any sort of public incitement to hatred against an "identifiable group." (this seems like a pretty decent summary of the law). It...

Oh yeah, and also on the christmas + grime tip (a match made in heaven, really) everyone needs to check out the christmas carol version of the Forward Riddim at Chantelle Fiddy's blog (or download it here--she doesn't have a direct link, hopefully no one minds if I post it here). I seriously...

ahh, I am now awash in festive good cheer. thanks Pearsall! I raise a glass of eggnog to thee in appreciation.

hohoho, I read this thread while lurking! But then I decided to log in and reply... So yeah, I agree very much with this: So by banning lurking, you don't really solve the problem of people reading and not posting, plus you decrease the likelihood of new people joining because it's very hard...

Dude! Totally agree. I mean their heads are shaped like hammers!! Can you imagine how messed up the world would be if "hammer" was the default head shape instead of "roughly ovoid"? It would be messed, but in a really good way.

Oliver: agreed. Next time I start getting too fired up talking politics, I'll have to have a wine and ice cream break and chill out :D

Blast! Is there nothing we can agree on, Oliver?!? How about ice cream, surely we can agree that ice cream is good...

If we want to deal with specific examples, I think it makes sense to deal with more just a handlful of military interventions in the 90s. After all, talking about American Power here, in all its forms. Let us not forget things like: --the bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan in the mid...