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The BBC has a great summary of Bush's priorities during his terms of office analysed by the frequency of use of particular words visualised in the tag cloud below. Medicare hardly gets a mention in 8 years, foreign policy was all about Iraq (not Afghanistan interestingly) and surprisingly, ''evil-doers'' and other bushisms don't feature.  

Guy on phone: But someone has to turn up as John McCain! Otherwise I'll look like an idiot being Sarah Palin on my own. Happy anticipation of Halloween, everyone...

Via HuffPo

I am always interested when people’s views contain inherent conflicts, and I have often thought that advocates of a civil society face serious dilemmas in coming to terms with allowing people as much freedom as possible, while simultaneously sustaining a well functioning society.  Surely, a successful civil society can only exist if ...

The NY Times has an interesting article focusing on whether new academics being hired to replace baby boomers in the US higher education sector are ''less ideologically polarized and more politically moderate''.  The article, by Patricia Cohen is entitled: On Campus, Liberal Professors Retire Hopefully this link will work: ...

As if the US presidential campaign weren't exciting enough, I've recently discovered that Stephen Colbert is running for President in the Marvel Universe. Colbert's run in 'our universe' was limited to the state of South Carolina, where he attempted to run as a Democrat (due to the fact that registering with the Democrats cost ...

One of the most interesting aspects of the EU is its attention to privacy issues and its willingness to take on large corporations (such as Microsoft, who were fined for anti-competitive behaviour).  Here is the latest from the online newsletter EUobserver.com: Global search engine colossus Google has been warned by the EU data ...

Last night I happened upon an episode of Medium and I became intrigued (BEWARE OF SPOILERS). The episode featured a State Senator from Arizona, who had been a POW for five years in Vietnam. This being Medium, there was obviously some dodgy business involved... it seems that the best way to survive a long incarceration in South East Asia is ...

Having sat through the last US election where initial predictions gave victory to the Democrats only to see weeks of legal wrangling resulting in Bush's re-election, the early returns from the current election gave me a sense of deja vu. However, it was not to be and the anihalation that the liberals feared eventuated. The interesting thing about ...

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