September 2006
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Holy shit!
Posted on Sep 18 2006 | Tagged as: Words, Politics, The Stupid, Media, Religion
It’s been a good couple of weeks for religious nuttery.
Last week, Brian Whitaker wrote this article on Comment is Free, about Hadi Saeed al-Mutif, a chap who has been in prison for the last 13-14 years in Saudi Arabia (sentence commuted to life imprisonment from the original punishment: death) for making a (weak) joke about […]
Bankers
Posted on Sep 05 2006 | Tagged as: Barclays are useless
Having “worked” in the Welsh Assembly for six months, I’d really started to buy into the notion that the State is especially incapable of organisation. Between one person replying to an email whose subject header contained the words “Free Event” to ask how much the event cost, and another replying to an email stating that […]