Tag: society
member name: Ian Thorpe
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March 19, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
I guess the McCartney divorce story has hit news bulletins around the world now...
Mr. McCartney was sleeping fitfully in his lonely bed, drifting in and out of dreams, taunted by . . . more
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January 14, 2008 01:07 PM EST --
Have you heard negative stuff about Facebook and wondered should you be there, or should your kids be there. Or are you not a member and wondering whether you should join the "coolest" of . . . more
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March 03, 2008 12:24 PM EST --
If we were in the business of rehabilitating criminals in the prison system so that on being discharged they were equipped to take their place in society and earn and honest living how would we go about . . . more
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March 10, 2008 12:03 PM EDT --
To be published this week, a new scientific study of sleeplessness lists amongst its findings that one common cause of sleeplessness is watching a television news bulletin before going to bed.
The . . . more
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March 14, 2008 03:42 PM EDT --
This is a story I posted on Boggart Blog three years ago, before I was at Gather. I exhume it now because a) its funny; b) the phenomenon is happening again I hear.
Wild life experts around . . . more
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March 15, 2008 12:25 PM EDT --
TOP COMEDY news of the week. The downfall of New York politician Eliot Spritzer this week reminds us how a name can affect a persons behaviour, what path they choose in life and ultmiately their fate. . . . more
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April 07, 2008 01:24 PM EDT --
As the topic of education (or lack of it) seems to come up ever more frequently in my comment threads and we seem to be losing sight of the fact that one of the great socially improving reforms of . . . more
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May 22, 2008 01:00 PM EDT --
It is simply unfair to ask politicians to debate a bill titled The human Fertility and embryo bill publicly, under the gaze of merciless comedy bloggers like myself, especially when that bill contains . . . more
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February 20, 2008 11:24 AM EST --
How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard,
English Translation published by Bloomsbury USA
Reviewed by Ian Thorpe
http://www.amazon.com/Talk-About-Books-Havent-Read/dp/1596914696 . . . more
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March 04, 2008 11:04 AM EST --
The Democratic Party claim their candidates lost the last two elections due to sharp practice, the hanging chad election in the state of Florida swinging the vote the Republicans' way in 2000 and . . . more
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May 10, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
While looking at Crooks and Liars yesterday reading comments on one of the articles which had suggested John McCain's belligerent stance on Iraq and commitment to "staying in" indefinitely . . . more
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January 08, 2008 01:04 PM EST --
We heard through one of the nuttier radio stations Mrs. Thorpe tunes into that Tom Cruise is threatening to sue Andrew Morton, an author who specialises is unofficial biographies of the loonier fringe . . . more
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February 17, 2008 10:50 AM EST --
So the boy-candidate Barak Obama has chosen the phrase "Yes We Can," as his campaign slogan. Its a common enough phrase, uttered millions of times each day around the English speaking world . . . more
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March 06, 2008 11:40 AM EST --
Forty percent of German soldiers are overweight, a news story this week revealed.
Given that ninety - seven percent of statistics are made up on the spur of the moment we should not take that figure . . . more
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February 21, 2008 01:00 PM EST --
One of the big news items of last week was the story of the baby about eighteen months old in Tennessee who was carried into the air by a tornado but safely deposited in a nearby field to be found by . . . more
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February 25, 2008 11:46 AM EST --
We Made Love
I hate what Flash graphics does to video, this should be
much better quality, but we get back to the refusal of
the web gods to use professional tools.
It . . . more
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April 22, 2008 11:38 AM EDT --
Cloned beef is on the way, it is safe to eat but is it necessary?
The first beef from cattle that have been cloned rather than bred conventionally will be hitting supermarket shelves in the U.S.A within . . . more
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March 18, 2008 02:17 PM EDT --
What's the difference between a Christian and a stockbroker?
The stockbroker knows he's lying
Jesus died on the cross for your sins.
So why beat yourself up with guilt? Enjoy your . . . more
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June 03, 2008 10:38 AM EDT --
A great new idea for saving the planet didn't emerge last week. Instead a great idea for making lots of money by using lots of precious resources and lots of energy was presented as a breakthrough . . . more
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March 26, 2008 01:41 PM EDT --
A LARGE PRINT version of this is available at Greenteeth Multi Media Follow the link to open the pager in a new window. A button is provided to close the Greenteeth window and return you . . . more
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