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I have a Greek colleague who is very politically literate and obsessively keeps track of goings on in her home country. According to her, the anger is essentially over an unequal distribution of risk and punishment. An unrepresentative government 'cooked the books' to get the country into the...

Well, can't say I can think of a statement better designed to piss off the maximum number of people. Nor a political claim made more intensely "in bad faith".

Following my current tradition (?) of forgetting to post stuff until way after it's up, here is a fairly opinionated article about Blizzard's swear filters and their approach to preventing community strife, which is simple-minded and causes more trouble to them than it's worth. Make sure to read...

Yeah, I don't think it's a coincidence that the sport's rise coincided with the spread of television. It didn't seem like that much of a wait between each play to me, but then I was engaged in questioning my housemate about how it all worked. The game loses something in lacking the flow and...

You can bet that if NFL introduced fighter planes and jeeps that players would camp them.

Yes - I concede it would only put him on the level of most other Republican candidates with regards to racism. He'd still beat them on most of the other things they lie about.

Well, since he consistently claims not to be racist, it would actually rather undermine his vaunted "honesty" if he was.

So that was the first time I've ever watched even half a game of US football, and by damn that is an interesting game. Hyper-formalised transfers of possession. Territorial control along a linear span. Rules of engagement that allow anyone to tackle anyone, leading to player positions whose...

Acts of violence by authorities that are outside the bounds allowed by law should be punished as criminal. Kidnapping, assault, whatever else. But hey, compensation is probably of more use to the victim in this case.

Magical birth anniversary time to you.

And here I thought the Olympic Games were supposed to be about celebrating and showcasing our potential and capability as human beings of all nations and colours. Or even a source of national pride and common ground for the UK. I guess that's just what they call 'branding'?

How could I forget? This week was an article written for Sneaky Bastards, a newly-launched stealth gaming blog. I'm going to link you to the redirect post on my own blog, so they can't sneakily track the link back to here and find out who John Brindle really is, but you should really check them...

The studious distinction between "Obama" and "someone connected to him" made me think of Barrack Obama himself actually sneaking out in the night and scratching his keys along the side of Orly's car in person.

Well, note that the UN document you quote is not a definition as such but a condemnation. It is not focused on providing a stringent, flexible and useful definition of the concept of 'terrorism' for diplomats, experts and international relations academics to use in their discussions and...

Only once? Where do you live?

Don't worry about it, the answer is that they all look ****ing weird. You're not missing out. Brrrr.

Best song cut from The Lion King.

Yorick referenced the response to Occupy Wall Street, though. I would imagine that whatever your views on the movement you would not endorse endemic police brutality (which some evidence suggests may have been federally co-ordinated) and a media whitewash thereof as a reasonable and...

I'm already camp enough. But if somebody wants to resurrect this competition and administrate it, that'd be boss. I haven't really got the time myself.

Great god, we can all get work done tomorrow.