Posts by Moz
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
George Eliot's 'Eye-of-God' narrative voice
I was thinking a more ethereal female voice that that. Kate Bush, say:
(and wow, the dude in that video looks uncannily like Gerry Brownlee)
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
who go the Hill and fumble softball questions about the operation of their own departments.
That depends on why you think they were appointed. Cynics will suggest that to destroy a programme or department you don't need to know much about it.
Ask yourself whether deciding to grossly underfund health required a deep understanding of the construction of Middlemarch Hospital, or would have been hindered by knowing. As the current board is saying, they sent all that information up the chain while the former Minister is busy claiming ignorance.
My feeling is that with knowledge comes responsibility, possibly even legal liability. Much safer for the political class if they can avoid knowing the details.
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Hard News: The shared-use path that no…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
http://www.velovision.com/category/news/</q>
Wow, VeloVision is still around. Onto their third editor/owner though, and I lost interest towards the end of Peter Eland's time when he started to focus almost exclusively on his ebike stuff and VeloVision became an occasional thing. But it's good to see the mag back, it definitely has a niche IMO.
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Gareth,
has been weaponised by the arrival of social media
Not least by the terrorist attacks now increasingly commonplace. It used to be mostly limited to organised groups either for or against state actors, these days the techniques and technology are so widespread any moron can use them. And there are a lot of morons... the Canadian "incel" guy, for example. "Involuntary celibacy" is as crazy a terrorist organisation as I've heard of.
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Speaking of the NYT, their main reporter on the "Hilary emails hack" has now said she feels bad about working for the Russians. Not as an employee, she was just a sucker. But she says she definitely worked hard to advance the Russian agenda against US interests.
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Neil,
lends itself to arguments of the form – “I spend my life attacking Hillary but I’m not pro-Trump”
I work with one. He was completely unable to say that he would prefer "shillary" as president but would always preface his attacks with "Trump is worse but...". Mind you, he's also "not racist but" and "not sexist but". Wanting to nuke "the Muslims" isn't racist, anyway, they're not a race.
It was a very trying electoral period in our office.
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Actually, someone should plant that one in the Don's head: when you've made Amerikkka great again, will you resign?
If Bush the Lesser can declare "Mission Accomplished", surely Trump can declare "America is Great"?
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Roger,
and the partisan courts, the partisan government agencies and partisan politics all the way down to school boards.
Are you suggesting that voting might not be the best way to select judges and election officials?
America is what it is because of the enormous amount of democracy. And freedom. They're ... well, obviously not great, because Trump is busy making them great again, but at least they're free and democratic.
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Hard News: Paying for the storms to come, in reply to ,
Wholly sheet. Literally and figuratively. Says "I avoid formulas, and I back my material with practical and hands-on field data" but skimming a bit he mostly just pastes stuff off other sites, removes any attributions and changes all the links to keep people inside 'battery university". At least it's nicely presented if you like your semi-technical material in tidy 200 word nibbles.
But no, there are other sources that are more accurate,more honest and more up to date.
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Hard News: Big Night Outage, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
if hedges could act as proximity alarms...
hawthorn hedges, certainly :)