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mostly for man like Crackerjack, as i mentioned Stoke Central to him the other day. interesting Guardian piece on the BNP in S-o-T here.

this amused me but then i am very childish

this is called whataboutery. dozy cunts like the Guardian's Seumas Milne do it all the time.

that kode9 sinogrime minimix loving Brother Randy Hickey's recent entry upon the board, and their industrious posting :D

the UK Independence Party - a group who want us to pull entirely out of the European Union and think in very simplistic ways about immigration and British identity - have recently started to come hard on the denialist bandwagon. kind of significant, i think, as their new chief is an ex-Tory...

incidentally, any international tournament where i was living in the States that England were involved in (the last WC springs to mind most strongly) i predictably turned into a raving Ingerland fan. watching the Portugal QF in Chicago w a multinational group of mates who were generally neutral...

very good point. i should have caveated my Nigeria pick (which was for political reasons, somewhat dilettante i know) w this. it's random but ever since Thaksin came in at City (nothing to do w the national team, true), my enthusiasm for the game in general took a beating as i became...

there is a rich vein of potential genre analogies here :cool: Islam as the minimal of the world of organised religion? repetition to reveal inner workings. Buddhism could be glam rock.

the amount of conversations i've had w friends in recent months about their booking off work schedules and which pub where and etc etc is phenomenal :) i don't know if it's the groundbreaking new continental venue (must help) but i'm probably more excited for this than any one since Italia '90...

yeah i can see where you're coming from here; Hitchens and Dawkins are nothing if not media-savvy of course. interesting to see the Vatican's official paper splashing over the weekend w a big think-piece of the melodic legacy of the Beatles...

damnit, someone needs to tell the tabloids in the UK. this is one reason why so many of today's feminists are self-deluding Orientalist dupes you see, shoring up the whole edifice w their bourgeois morality systems. i actually see Josef's opening post mentions P Hallward, my bad.

sorry more OT, but i'd forgotten the fun on that fascism thread, superb. 75 pages, excellent stuff, i remember following it to the end. loving the early doors stuff

who are you supporting in the football World Cup? i know this is roiling football blather, but if anyone is bothered, the name of the country's team. no explanations necessary as to who you are feeling, i'd do a poll but it would be unwieldy. me: Nigeria.

Josef top boy in the game (and Arsenal fan like Paul Nomos) :D Zizek was pretty decent around the time of the Haiti quake, he was very much bigging up Peter Hallward. i don't think Hallward is probably perfect on Haiti, sure (and i only say that because people like J. Michael Dash might have...

Rumble is obviously right to stress that IHL is a lip-service area, on the whole (sadly, of course), so it is crucial that national, sovereign laws should be the best that they can. there's interesting stuff from Cracker here i think i don't know if we ever answered Vim's question from last...

i'm pretty sure the Guardian will have criticised the limited pace of improvements in Afghan life (of course not as fast as anyone would like, but they are there) since the Taliban were removed to give just one other example; sometimes there is a real moon-on-a-stick vibe i get from them...

ha, nice one. she gives lovely interview. that stuff about the genesis of knitting as a (fairly recently in vogue) younger person craze starting w models killing time off runway was genuinely fascinating.

do you get grief off Dems for 'costing us 2000'? i here assume you vote Nader, clearly. (which i believe may be a myth, tbf, re the vote in 2000, but you'll permit me to ask you nonetheless :) )

i must say just IMO (and i'm not moralising in the following post in the bit where i mention drones, just observing very baldly) this development for me does not place Obama below Dubya in any sort of ethical league table at all. of course as we all know Obama uses drones etc. as Dubya did...

you'll find no argument from me on that fact.