UK Voxers

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2008-07-05T10:20:29Z

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Hitchens, you fat fraud, you supported the killing, maiming and displacement of millions of people.

2008-07-05T09:23:42Z

http://www.alternet.org/rights/90292/?page=entire Warmongerer and neocon Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture! Stop the presses! Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture! Hitchens announced ...

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Very, very interesting read. Not another anti US rant, but telling it like it is from (gasp) Murdoch

2008-07-05T08:21:23Z

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23968711-7583,00.html Nirvana out of American reach Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large | July 05, 2008 THE energy, financial and political woes that grip the US signal a decisive shift in wor...

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The evolution of a conspiracy theory

2008-07-05T05:01:58Z

A 'conspiracy theory' is a 'theory' and not a 'science', not because it cannot be a 'science', but because the lack of transparency disables its 'theorists' from putting their respective theories to the scientific test. This doesn't invalidate ...

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Should the Church of England appoint women bishops? - vaginal discrimination?

2008-07-05T04:53:52Z

Let's put it another way - should the Church of England appoint bishops without penises? ...which makes me immediately wonder what the relevance of what's between my legs is to the Word of God.

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Mac vs Win vs You

2008-07-05T04:51:05Z

There is no doubt that windows is quite the dodgy software. I've been using it since win95 through to winXP and am hesitant to fork out money for what will certainly be the latest DBI version of Vista (dodgy-but-improved). But one of the reaso...

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Set Phasers to Shun (or The Fine Art of Not Caring)

2008-07-04T23:05:07Z

It's not pleasant to be ignored. It's not nice to go unacknowledged. It's even less pleasant and less nice when the act of ignoring or the absence of acknowledgement serves as a means to avoid having to care. Because by showing that you notice ...

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Michael Imperioli joins Life on Mars US cast

2008-07-03T05:26:26Z

Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos) will join the cast of US Life on Mars, according to Entertainment Weekly. The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the news, says Imperioli is the American Ray Carling. This does bode well: it means at least one of R...

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Barack Obama and the Cult of Personality

2008-07-03T06:32:48Z

A "cult of personality" is created when the media casts a leader in a heroic or godlike image, combined with unquestioning praise and flattery for that person even though they have accomplished nothing in their political career. A hallmark for d...

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New Tricks is cool

2008-07-03T06:02:56Z

I know Britain is as youth-obsessed as America sometimes, and an article in The Daily Telegraph, about cop show New Tricks, reminded me of that fact. Amanda Redman, the star of the show, and doing better here than in Honest, the remake of the N...

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