I have once again over-committed myself and cannot spend much time blogging. This seems to have coincided with Cobweb blowing up into a default blue-and-white mess that is no longer riddled with viruses. I have every confidence that uber will be able to restore us to non-default happiness in due course.
Although I have little [...]
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Becoming American
While I’ve always had an opinion on what makes an “American” (in the “citizen of the United States” sense, not the “living on one of the American continents” sense), it’s only in the past ten years that opinion has really crystallized into something I will pick fights over. Becoming a citizen is a pretty big [...]
I Changed My Mind When I Saw This
Bjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world on TED.com.
Will you be my nanny?
Unrelated to any of this…gratz to everyone who voted today. Thank you for exercising your franchise; hopefully I’ll be right behind you in a few years.
I know abortion is a bit of a taboo topic in some places, so I’ll hide this behind a cut (I really have been reading too much LJ, haven’t I?). [...]
Time to Vote
The General Election is coming. If you haven’t alreay Rocked the vote, you may wish to track your candidate. In order to vote, you have to be registered you can check the register of electors here, so long as you know which constituency is your home.
There are six main parties running, and a whole [...]