Quote of the day
Posted on December 8th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
From Samizdata:
[T]here is not much point trying to defend civilisation if we use barbaric methods.
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Traitors to the left
Posted on December 8th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
Nick Cohen writes in the New Statesman (which stupidly only allows people to read one story per day, for free, on their website):
Before you go to a left-wing meeting, brace yourself for the likelihood that everyone you meet in the hall will be standing on their head. Do not be surprised to see communists supporting […]
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Customers bite back
Posted on December 8th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
The Consumerist: A blog after my own crusty, bitchy heart. (I told my father - who always, always writes a letter to inform a company when they’ve done him wrong - that he should take all of his missives and put them on a blog. When I have a spare nanosecond, I’m going to help […]
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“What are you gonna do about it?”
Posted on December 8th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
Amy Alkon, my trés chic friend, reports:
.. there’s no such thing as a “should” — just your preferred outcome when something happens. He “should have called you?” No, he didn’t call you. There is no should. Either it is or it ain’t — and what are you gonna do about it?
I find it a huge […]
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Of Mena and Metcalfe
Posted on December 8th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
Drama bores me these days, but I feel the need to say something about Ben Metcalfe dogging Mena Trott in public, then getting shy about it and claiming he was acting out of ‘compassion’. (I first read about this via David Tebbutt’s Register account of the incident, which makes Metcalfe’s actions seem more positive than […]
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