Ahhh work, that most marvelous of pursuits that keeps food on the table.
Today was my first official day of work as a full time employee of Gigantomegabankcorp North America, where I have been a contractor for 26 months.
Going from Contractor to FTE means bennies, paid time off (25 days a year actually. Woo hoo), and […]
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From that bastion of objective news, The CW:
SAFER, Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation, which got a ballot initiative passed to make enforcing marijuana laws the lowest legal priority in Denver, is now pushing to allow passengers to get high before they fly. But since the FAA oversees the airport and smoking pot is against federal […]
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No, it is not a streamlined version of the answer to life, the universe and everything. It is the maximum number of aspirin in a bottle available at the local Clear Pharmacy. According to the Pharmacist on duty, that is the largest number sellable without a prescription. I am sure I looked perplexed with my jaw hanging open during the few speechless moments before I came out with the only answer I could think of:…
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You may not know that a Home Office minister is touring the UK holding "consultation" meetings about the National Identity Scheme, and that it is more nonsensical than even the average government consultation exercise. She is, however, and nothing will be allowed to stand in her way. 3 members of NO2ID were arrested this morning for "suspected breach of the peace" while protesting outside the venue of the Edinburgh consultation exercise. Making ministers look bad…
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Just to avoid any possible confusion, I should probably point out here that the Samizdata Illuminatus is a collective pseudonym used when any of the regular writers of this site wants to publish something anonymously. The author of this post is actually in London, not Massachusetts Dale posted below about the idiotic rules he encountered when attempting to buy asprin in (I presume) Northern Ireland. I cannot answer the question as to whether the situation…
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The odd dull, negative game apart, I thought the European Championship football tournament, held this year in Austria and Switzerland, has been excellent with plenty of attacking flair to savour. For me, the highlights have been the Holland-Italy match (the Dutch won it decisively); the Russia-Holland game (the Russians turned over the Dutch in superb style) and the final, won by the wonderful Spanish side, which has waited a long time for this moment. It…
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Seymour Hersh writes in the New Yorker:
Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential […]
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If my vote for Bob Barr is a “wasted vote,” than so be it.
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I notice that the this week's Economist is taking the same basic line as its sister publication the Financial Times did the Saturday after the Irish 'no' vote, that the EU can carry on without the text that was voted down. And, from their own stand point, both publications may well be correct. It would be nice for them if the European Union had total power (which the 'Treaty of Lisbon' would have given it…
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I am watching a number of videos in which our candidate Bob Barr has been interviewed and he sounds pretty good. You may enjoy this one in which he talks extensively about Statist spying and the way in which the government is destroying the privacy of the individual….
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