Thursday, August 29, 2002
Cities are a sprawling mess because the benefits of tapping into existing infrastructure compete with the drawbacks of high land costs in built-up areas. So suggests a new model that could help predict future urban expansion
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
“A goose fitted with a £3,000 electronic transmitter to chart its migration has been tracked 4,500 miles (7,245 kilometres) by satellite - to an Eskimo hunter’s freezer.”
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Where is most of the normal matter in the Universe? Recent observations from the
Chandra X-ray Observatory confirm that it is in hot gas filaments strewn throughout the universe. [source]
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
British television is ‘institutionally racist’, with programme- makers excluding ethnic minorities and ‘ghettoising’ them away from parts in the mainstream shows, according to Britain’s biggest broadcasting union.
Now just look at British TV. The majority of news presenters are non-white, non-whites are heavily over represented in both presenting and drama. Basing ones judgements on TV alone, [...]
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Michael Gove savages the peacenicks and appeasers in this excellent Times opinion piece.
No responsible Western leader can afford to discount the consequences of Saddam possessing deliverable weapons of mass destruction. He is a practised mass murderer with unassuaged territorial ambitions towards his neighbours. He is an unstable tyrant who aspires to hegemony over the [...]
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Lampoons the repartions absurdity in America.
See alsoWhy Wait for Reparations? by William Raspberry
Think of the difference between divorce lawyers and marriage counselors. The former are reparationists, guided mostly by financial bottom lines — how much of the marital assets can be grabbed for their client. The latter are healers: What arrangements, commitments and concessions [...]
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
The existence of an underclass of the permanently poor is a myth, a Left-wing think tank claimed yesterday in findings that present a direct challenge to assumptions at the heart of Labour policies on welfare reform.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Latest folly:
“A social worker convicted yesterday of refusing to testify before the
Victoria ClimbiÈ inquiry said the decision to prosecute her may have
been motivated by institutional racism.” - Guardian.
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
“Cosatu - You Xhosas
Ubuthi of tribalism
ubisi of hatred
fed to us by false inyangas
at nightshift
swallowed at lunchtime over a labalaba game
at clocking-in time we gulp it
then sway the pangas
and we drink some more.
“Cosatu you’ve had it” workers chant
“you are against our bosses
you affront our chief
Cosatu - You Xhosas
you are foreigners
stealing our jobs and our money …
Tyre-necklaces [...]