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Jeff_Sparrow

  1. @mmechomski Yes, Antony and I bang on about that in the intro to Left Turn.
  2. @alisoncroggon Excellent. I think I can manage that.
  3. @dingotookmybaby Today was Day 1 of my 'running to work' experiment. Now I discover I have to go to a formal meeting. I'm screwed.
  4. 'Dress: Business / Smart Casual'. That means rumpled slacks and an old t-shirt, doesn't it?
  5. 'appreciate the sentiment, the Westboro Baptist Church seems to not understand that God punishes us with Nickelback.' bit.ly/KvrxB4
  6. 'The better you have lived the worse you may die.' bit.ly/JyWxTa
  7. The released embassy cables ... do not contain any references to "proper" extradition processes bit.ly/KwKRy9
  8. @gingerandhoney oh I already do that. And don't get me started on that noise they call music.
  9. I am drinking sherry and watching Antiques Roadshow. I am 85 years old.
  10. @gtiso Cohen's column next week: 'new evidence suggests George W Bush is not the freedom loving genius we were led to believe'
  11. @usefulDesign yes. But they never mention it now.
  12. @gtiso muscular liberalism means never having to say you're sorry.
  13. It is to LOL! 'But others, including your correspondent, were, if you will, "left" or "anti-totalitarian" Blairites.'
  14. Nick Cohen is shocked -- shocked! -- that Tony Blair's venal and amoral. bit.ly/JErAJQ
  15. theory: @WFQuestions and @boltcomments are the same person
  16. Ah, the internet, where you go to check a single fact and end up browsing bizarre documents about anti-Germanism bit.ly/LpOSpk
  17. New Atheist hero Sam Harris continues his crusade for racial profiling bit.ly/K87sT4
  18. @MelissaAWatts quite