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I mean really, you can’t even arrange a good old traditional bare knuckle toddler fight without some PC nanny-statist getting on your back.

As the man who sent me the link said, this country is run by geniuses.

Perhaps most emotive is the TFO’s logo, which combines the twin towers, the Pentagon and the United 93 designation of the fourth 9/11 plane.

This can only be good news… Florida drops touch screen voting machines and returns to a simple paper based system.

…to be surprised that there is yet another “Terror Alert” when the Government is in trouble again? Ringfence Heathrow with tanks on the eve of an anti war march, anyone? Lordy. It’s all starting to smell very Nixon…

This is truly bizarre…

This time, while Eden was on a visit to Paris, he requested that France be allowed to join the British Commonwealth.

While this story is itself very very disturbing (Ukraine babies in stem cell probe) what worries me more is that it will no doubt play into the tabloid/neocon hands:

I can just see the argument: “look how evil it is, we must stop all stem cell research”, rather than “look what our prohibition is creating”.

• War on Drugs
• War on Terror
• and finally, the one they’ve all be moving towards, War on Science

Shit

Despite criticism for adjourning last week without acting on several major legislative initiatives, members of Congress can boast significant achievements in at least one area of federal lawmaking — naming post offices. Of the 383 pieces of legislation that were signed into law during the two-year 109th Congress, more than one-quarter dealt with naming or renaming federal buildings and structures — primarily post offices — after various Americans.

I know he’s on a book run at the moment and so his current high visibility is a function of marketing rather than public interest it is still very soothing to a rabid atheist like myself to see such positive coverage of Richard Dawkins’ position on God.

This is the sort of thing that makes my blood boil. Intelligent Design information pack sent to schools and 53% of all heads of science (that’s 59% of 90% for those of you that missed maths, by the way) think “it would make a useful teaching aid”. One hopes in the sense of useful in helping children identify nutters but I get the feeling that’s not the one meant.