I admire Elizabeth Warren, I like her first statewide TV ad. Plain, direct, simple. Her background shouldn’t be as important as her message, but voters do take backgrounds into account, and often for good reasons. Hers should play well. Hers is a campaign and a potentially a senatorship that have huge potential to make an important, positive…
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Stuffed toys from a child’s own drawing
This is the most beautiful idea for a business that I’ve seen in a while: Child’s Own Studio. The toymaker’s blog is fun reading. How cool is it to be figuring out ways to turn a child’s cute little drawing into a real stuffed toy? Must be very satisfying. Thanks to Hacker News for the link….
Fox News
Insert your own joke here – I won’t be the first to think this, but doesn’t the neocon news network’s name suddenly have a self-parodying flavour courtesy of Dr Fox’s resignation?
Schrödinger’s Fox
Schrödinger’s Fox n. 1. A curious beast whose guilt does not exist until it is observed by a vindictive media. The Contrary Dictionary Thanks to @the_twiterati’s #liamfoxapology for the idea. I also like this one from Sarah Chalmers: ”I regret that certain aspects of my not getting up in time allow the media to portray me as running…
Quantum Locking. Say what?
At some point, I shall go off and find out what “quantum locking” is. But for a while, I’m quite enjoying the way this YouTube clip absolutely boggles my mind. It has to be CGI. Doesn’t it?
Remember the politician’s lifecycle
It looks like there will be two main conclusions from GO’D’s report on Liam Fox: He broke the ministerial code He did not gain financially from the arrangement With respect to the first – it will be good to have this made clear, and this is the hard evidence that makes a nonsense of the…
The importance of close scrutiny
One of Dr Liam Fox’s main defences for treating his office like a business opportunity for friends is that he doubts the motives of those criticising him. You would have thought their name (“The Opposition”, “journalists”) would tip him off that nobody expects (or needs, frankly) their motives to be pure as the driven snow….
Eurosceptics: they’d be funny if it weren’t so serious
It drives British Eurosceptics mad that many in Washington tend to sigh at their warnings of the perils of European integration, instead tending to take the view that if the Lilliputians across the Atlantic care to form themselves into a single delegation, that might make them slightly less time-consuming and pathetic. The Economist isn’t given…
The paid-in-advance symbolism of Labour Youth
As I mentally shut down last night, here’s what was the most interesting thing about the previous week: Labour Youth seem very comfortable with being well funded. They had good stuff at Reading University Freshers’ Fayre when I nipped down to help for an hour or so. I’m no fan of poverty porn. You shouldn’t…