35 month ago
plasticbag : Vote for the Daily Mail ludicrous headline of the year! - More entertaining / scary than you can possibly imagine. It's almost a hard process working out and analysing exactly which headline was most scurrilous and damaging...
Rod Begbie : Mailwatch Vote 2005 - Vote for the most outrageous Daily Mail or Daily Express headline of 2005. I'm having trouble deciding between "1 IN 4 TERROR SUSPECTS ARE ASYLUM SEEKERS" and "GIVE MORE LAND TO GYPSIES ORDERS PRESCOTT" [via] #
Rod Begbie : Mailwatch Vote 2005 - Vote for the most outrageous Daily Mail or Daily Express headline of 2005. I'm having trouble deciding between "1 IN 4 TERROR SUSPECTS ARE ASYLUM SEEKERS" and "GIVE MORE LAND TO GYPSIES ORDERS PRESCOTT" [via] #
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plasticbag : Who was Ayn Rand anyway: 'Her novels were based upon the archetype of the "Randian hero," a man whose genius leads others to reject him, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values...' - Given that description and my own incipient genius, it's a wonder that I find so many of Rand's followers to be self-involved right-wing psycho nut-bags... Maybe they're not Randian enough... Prole-scum...
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48 month ago
plasticbag : Vaughn pulls out of these new weblog award things because he doesn't like the company - Like much of what's been happening online, I've completely missed the '2004 weblog awards' (no relation to the Bloggies). I think this one emerged from the mostly right-wing ex-warblogger politico community/ecosystem...
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Nation's Poor Win Election For Nation\'s Rich - "The alliance between the tiny fraction at the top of the pyramid and the teeming masses of mouth-breathers at its enormous base has never been stronger," a triumphant Bush said.
jkottke : The Onion: Nation's Poor Win Election for Nation's Rich
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plasticbag : The Telegraph and Sun misrepresent fairly neutral or positive stats about the acceptance of gay people in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines - It just goes to show that you can use statistics to prove anything - even, er, even things that, you know, the statistics very definitely don't, er, prove... And, er, you know, if you're a right-wing national UK newspaper...
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