June 2007
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Reality TV? It just isn’t
Posted on Jun 10 2007 | Tagged as: TV, Race, Free-speech fundamentalism
Watching Doctor Who last night reminded me of a bit in last week’s episode in which Martha, temporarily living in 1913, was told that it was ridiculous for a woman to study to be a (medical) doctor, and “particularly one of [her] colour”.
Or, if you like, a racist remark.
So if it’s okay for the […]
From my cold, dead, gin-soaked hands
Posted on Jun 05 2007 | Tagged as: Just no
Via Tim, this story in the Times:
Middle-class wine drinkers will be the focus of government plans to make drunkenness as socially unacceptable as smoking, The Times has learnt.
Under the plans published today, a fresh audit is to be conducted by the Government into the overall costs of alcohol abuse to society and the […]
All in a day’s play
Posted on Jun 03 2007 | Tagged as: While I should be working
This morning I’ve removed restrictions on gun ownership, lowered the legal age to buy alcohol, deregulated gambling, legalised drugs and prostitution, reversed the budget defecit, been elected to a historic five terms in office with the fourth term seeing me receive 88.5% of the popular vote… and then got blown to bits by religious extremists.
Stupid […]