Links and stuff from between February 24th and February 28th
Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…
- Empire Movie News – Exclusive: Russell Crowe On Robin Hood – and as… BILL HICKS? Just shoot me now.
- How to detect propaganda – Elements of The Con: Name calling, glittering generalities, transfer, the testimonial, plain folks, card stacking, band wagon
- BROWN REFUSES TO HAND BACK PENSION – The Daily Mash – 'Mr Brown was defiant in the face of City outrage despite the UK government's annual operating loss of £100bn, rising to £1.5 trillion when the write-down of its banking assets is taken into account.'
- Jack Straw: Our record isn't perfect. But talk of a police state is daft – In short: black is white, up is down, he's a decent sort of bloke.
- Carlos Labs – Nuke your own street. That's… sobering.
- Back Towards The Locus: Jack Straw Is Sociopathic… – 'What a terrifying mindset. What an iron will towards self-preservation.'
- Guido Fawkes: PMQs Cancelled – 'Guido's sympathies are with the Camerons. However cancelling PMQs is not the right response.' His dismay is less do with the impact on democracy and more to do with a missed opportunity for him and his groupies to call Gordon Brown mental and queer.
- Due Process -Times Online – Who said anything about 'making Binyam Mohamed a hero'?
- BBC NEWS | Magazine | How do you explain a missing hand to a child? – How about, 'the nice lady on the telly was born without a hand' and take it from there? For crying out loud.
- Jade Goody's biographer banned from wedding – What a seemly display. The dying bride's media deal vetoed her guestlist.
- Will Self: Scant cheer in Jade Goody’s tawdry circus of death – 'The much-trumpeted view that our willingness to bear witness to Jade Goody's expiration is an example of how healthy our attitude to death is, is exactly the reverse of the case.'
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Posted on March 2nd, 2009 at 8:33am under Miscellaneous dross
The propoganda item is most useful, thanks for that!