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Roman or Celt?

July 20, 2009 – 9:12 am

My sister and I have this really daggy game where we challenge each other as to which historical group we would like to belong, and justify the answers. It started out with Venetian or Florentine? (As I recall we were both Venetians). Then we went to Roman or Celt? You can see why I’m addicted [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in History, Law, Religion | Comments (38)

New Divide

June 26, 2009 – 6:53 am

Michael Bay has become notorious for taking good ideas and shitting on them: this is how you get a whole sequence in Team America: World Police dedicated to how shit his take on Pearl Harbour really was. Perhaps it’s in all our interests that the Transformers franchise is proving harder to kill. This is in [...]

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Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

June 21, 2009 – 10:37 am

As Legal Eagle, Deus Ex Macintosh and a couple of others know, I have three characters in this novel who are — to greater or lesser degrees — torturers. One of them also has an excellent sense of humour. I mean, the little shit’s actually outstandingly funny. I tried to change this early on in [...]

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Hedonism, Inc

April 30, 2009 – 7:32 am

More than one commentator over many years has made the point that the liberal choice architecture of capitalist societies is actually incompatible with capitalism itself: getting up on Monday morning to do one’s work for The Man involves not getting so wasted on the weekend that capitalist acts between consenting adults become impossible once the [...]

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‘Bollywood with Brass’

April 4, 2009 – 8:45 pm

Yes, it’s a music post and… not about Metallica.  Since I’ve been at Oxford, I’ve discovered large numbers of people who study extremely interesting things. This goes without saying. As you’d expect, there’s lots of putative cures for cancer, philosophies of law, population genetics and so on to be found among the Oxford graduate community. [...]

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‘Do not go there, you may burn’

February 27, 2009 – 6:38 am

In light of recent discussions of what it is to be clever and different, here’s one video clip that — for mine — properly captures what it is to swim upstream as a girl. The lyrics are gender neutral (albeit cleverly done). The clip, however, is focussed on a single young women (although it also [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Feminism | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

And now for some classy drums

February 18, 2009 – 7:57 am

This is the song — despite its overt references to suicide and oblique references to Islam — that no radio station in the US could suppress in the wake of 9/11. Drummer John Dolmayan is a particular highlight: that is one impressive drumkit, for once given appropriate attention in the clip. The band, of course, [...]

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Vladimir’s Wedding

February 15, 2009 – 3:35 am

An Abba tribute band says it has performed a private concert for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Bjorn Again says it was paid £20,000 to play the gig 200 miles (320km) north of Moscow on 22 January. Bjorn Again’s manager Rod Stephen and other band members said Mr Putin danced to Abba hits and shouted [...]

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Vladimir’s Wedding

February 15, 2009 – 3:30 am

An Abba tribute band says it has performed a private concert for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Bjorn Again says it was paid £20,000 to play the gig 200 miles (320km) north of Moscow on 22 January. Bjorn Again’s manager Rod Stephen and other band members said Mr Putin danced to Abba hits and shouted [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Funnies, Politics | Tagged | Comments (0)

The Cardinall’s Musick

February 3, 2009 – 5:58 am

Last night my college hosted a performance by the above-named a cappella ensemble. In addition to possessing a counter-tenor who is quite possibly the closest the world will ever see to a human tuning-fork, they have an extraordinary sound. I’ve been unable to track down anything on youtube with all of them singing together — [...]

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