Posts by 81stcolumn
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I can’t believe I didn’t find time to make more of how active and comfortable women are in these forums, and what a useful influence that is.
Indeed - speaking as a bloke I guess a measure of your success is that I take it for granted the contribution made by teh women’s XV et al.
On a sadder note I’d finally plucked up courage to go to an OGB and got permission, but you put it on a Thursday – conspiracy I say !!!
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Mmmm my existing contract rolled over on the 18th which is a shame. I'll have to wait a whole year to tell them to get stuffed.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: Now with 70% less wordiness!, in reply to Sacha,
I'm not expecting socialism any time soon
I believe it is still used for bailing out broken banks and financiers.
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But these are kids who have lived in a country under heavy manners for half their lives.
And I believe they are entitled to the same sense of relief that many young Europeans felt with the fall of the Berlin Wall. I can't say that I shared in that relief with the dismissal of Bin Laden. Perhaps it's my age but I was touched by sense of futility this time round. But I wouldn't begrudge anyone those feelings after all isn't that what being young is all about ?
They're already shipping the body bags
Down by the Rio Grande
But you can fight for democracy at home
And not in some foreign land -
Dýou think the EB would let him 'fess up ?
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Bingo cards at the ready then?
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Ooooh Motorhead - Finally the internet fairies have delivered this much needed mashup.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Kracklite,
Don't laugh but my lifelong companion made a complaint using the IPCA site over a minor issue. Got a response and an apology (we framed the apology). I await with interest for the response to brother K.
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However, their use of evidence was hampered by the huge volume of various kinds of evidence and by the unsuitability of much academic research in answering policy questions. Faced with this deluge of inconclusive information, they used evidence to create persuasive policy stories.
Does anyone grasp the irony of ethnographers blaming poor sources and poor storytelling ?