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05 Jun 2010 1741H

Goodbye John

Okay, so this morning, John wouldn’t want us to keep moping, he’d want us to kick some ass. Mourn for the dead, but fight like hell for the living, to quote Mother Jones. Susan and the kids, need to make sure they’re okay, when’s the funeral/memorial service, are we setting up a fund for John’s [...]

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29 Jan 2009 1119H

Some words from our CEO

“History teaches us that crises weaken the weak and strengthen the strong.”

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21 Jan 2009 2033H

On my iPod

My wife has twigged me onto the “Cat Who” series, and I assiduously have been following the audiobooks on my daily journey to and from work after a massive purchase from iTunes. The mellifluous tones of George Guidall have proven to be a calming influence. And while they are ostensibly cat stories, I strongly suspect [...]

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04 Dec 2008 1811H

Thailand and Canada

So, the Thais occupying the airport, the so-called People’s Alliance for Democracy, are not in fact for a democracy but for scrapping the electoral system, to be replaced by an elite among Thai society to appoint people to government. And they’re threatened by the populism of rural Thailand embodied by the current government.
In Canada, the [...]

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26 Jun 2008 1726H

Then you, too, ha ha, the Pole

you say, all in one breath. “But that book that begins and then gets stuck there, what a fraud, because it happened to you, too, I’m told; and the same with me, you know? Having given it a try, I’m dropping this one and taking this other, but what a coincidence, the two of us.”
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