Tue - July 20, 2004

The Byronic Foot


While looking up two Feet, Michael and Paul on the web, I came upon these delightful varses for the first time in years.

"England! With all thy faults I love thee still."
I said at Calais, and have not forgot it;
I like to speak and lucubrate my fill;
I like the government (but that is not it);
I like the freedom of the press and quill;
I like the Habeas Corpus (when we’ve got it)
I like a parliamentary debate,
Particularly when ‘tis not too late;

....

Our standing army, and disbanded seamen,
Poor’s rate, Reform, my own, the nation’s debt,
Our little riots just to show we are free men,
Our trifling bankruptcies in the Gazette,
Our cloudy climate and our chilly women,
All these I can forgive, and those forget,
And greatly venerate our recent glories,
And wish they were not owing to the Tories.

(Byron, Bebbo 47 and 49)

- as cited on Tribune's website: http://www.tribweb.co.uk/michaelfoot/

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Wed - July 14, 2004

On The Big Question of The Day


A few of the most interesting contributions on Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11

Todd Gitlin in Open Democracy:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-3-1988.jsp#

Christopher Hitchens in Slate
http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/

Irfan Khawaja at The Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society
http://www.secularislam.org/articles/khawaja20.htm

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Thu - July 8, 2004

Fuck the FCC


Eric Idle hates the FCC.

It has fined him five thousand dollars per fuck. He also hates Bush, Ashcroft, Condi, and the whole bloody lot of them. Download his tender ditty of hate from his very own Python site .

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Whitney Court photos



Here are Natasha Loder's Whitney Revels photos, as announced on her fine blog . More to follow.

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