Damned Mark Steyn reader. But this poll gives one hope. Maybe they don't just follow orders meekly about something so absurd and against their interests. Cradle of democracy, after all. I strive toward optimism.

Of all anthems the world over this has got to be the most emotionally moving <link> as I've noted before. Well, there's no escaping the high prices there, a cheddar cheese and chutney sandwich costs a small fortune too! Labour deserves what it gets from the voters. But please keep in mind one very important fact and that is that even the Tories are wild-eyed liberals compared to America's conservatives. They support universal health care for instance, we can't get the same here to (cough) save out lives.

Glorious! I'd scratch your belly, Kitten, but some people might get the wrong idea.

Any European is liberal compared to America's conservatives. That's why we fascinate them so. "If only we could do that," they are often overheard to say. It'll take another Maggie to set things right. Like good Queen Bess.

Too many people just know that as the graduation song, without realising what it means. Wider still and wider, may thy bounds be set. God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet. As Cecil Rhodes once said to the Queen-Empress Victoria "I'd annex the moon if I could." Kinda cool how everyone's waving their regional flags. Collect them all!

Not really. But since you caused me to play around on youtube, here's a good Fray soundtrack.

Stewart always reminded me of the animated, Mark Hamill Joker for some reason. No political reason, but I'm thinking the animated Joker is more Jewish than Irish, as he claims. Plus he mugs for the camera a lot. And you just know Stewart watched this show a lot in college, as did I.

Now, you have to skip ahead to the 2:30 mark or thereabouts. Leitmotifs work so very very well.

Well, I am of the opinion that global warming is (a) real and (b) something to worry about, but I am not convinced that the apocalyptic predictions are at all likely to come true. Malthus' terrifying predictions have not come true yet, nor has the great population bomb exploded on us yet.

My point: don't underestimate the ability of technology to save our asses. Currently, an electric car that people actually want, and not just because of the smug factor, costs about a hundred grand. I'd be willing to bet that it will cost much less than a hundred grand in ten years. It doesn't happen by magic, but either things will get really fucked up or oil will get more expensive, and suddenly the invisible hand of the market will find itself putting loads more money in the pockets of people trying to make cheap and (relatively) carbon-free energy. Governments could speed the process along, at great cost, by a carbon tax (or cap and trade, but a carbon tax is less amenable to gaming by interested parties at legislation time). I'm generally in favor of a carbon tax, if only because I believe anything the editors of the Economist tell me to believe.

Obviously, I could be wrong. But technology is generally a better horse to bet on than the apocalypse.

may be Obama, if you brain washed MFers will not interfere with your fascistozoid idiocy

will be able to gain something back

Urquhart:

Ya pansy. I'm torn between whether Australia or India is the new Anglosphere leader. Obama has ensured that it ain't gonna be us.

That you render "fascistozoid idiocy" in the Cyrillic alphabet.

Indulge us.

of the four. I totally agree that if there is a viable, marketable clean-n-safe option out there we should take it. The problem with statist solutions thus far is that they hike up the price of everything everybody buys or uses. Maybe we oughta just fund research, until this stuff becomes efficient, and can displace the fossil stuff of its own accord.

Jonah Goldberg had a recent column about this, which I'll not link to. Basically, why does every global warming solution involve returning to horses and buggies? And isn't that maybe extreme? Though I'm fond of horses.

But gettin beat by England should be a source of shame to us all.

фашиствующий идиотизм

will indulge in reading idiot Goldberg

I tried to link to "Jerusalem", this time it didn't work. I'm allowed to post one proper link a month I think. But, It's all for the best, I'm running out of handkerchiefs. Another thing the Brits do best, btw, are television productions. Masterpiece Theatre is still superior to most movies made today. The acting is always superb even if the stories and plots are sometimes a bit unsettling.

Great art and Jon Stewart is a genius. Can you bear to take a break from Hannity to watch his show?

You can say what you like about Jonah Goldberg. But "idiot" is something of a stretch.

Thanks for the Cyrillic, though. I knew I could depend on you.

Art knows no ideology. If you only watched performers with whom you agreed, you'd sorta suck.

Speaking of BBC, here's a fine Masterpiece production. The lead character may have a name beginning with U.

malicious liar , propagandist and distortionist whose carrier is 100% a result of a dirty blue dress.