The Blood is The Life 07-02-2012

[miss_s_b]

• Sixteen Good Things The Lib Dems Have Achieved
  "this is why, despite the fact that I don’t support the government, I *do* support the Lib Dems in the government... Because we haven’t made the world perfect in only eighteen months with only nine percent of the MPs in parliament – but we’ve made it better. And that’s more than I can say about the actions of any other government party of my lifetime."
  (tags: libdemmery )
  
  
• G. I. Joe and Sleeping Beauty
  "I don’t have terribly high standards for movies trying to cash in on my 80s nostalgia. I don’t expect five-star dining at McDonald’s, and I don’t expect brilliant cinema from G. I. Joe. But this was like ordering a Happy Meal and finding out that the “boy’s toy” is an action figure while the “girl’s toy” is a punch in the face."
  (tags: Feminism )
  
  
• Warhorse [sevenhelz]
  This is a film review that gets to the heart of what I would want to know before seeing a film: is there anything in it that would seriously piss me off? (answer in this case appears to be HELL YES)
  (tags: film )
  
  
• Demos | Blogs
  "the Constitution Unit at UCL have mooted another option. They point out that the Welfare Reform Bill is not just about cutting expenditure, but covers a wide range of reforms: changes to assessment processes, creating new benefits, and so on. As such, the Lords might reject the Common’s claim of financial privilege. They could, in fact, reject the bill in its entirety, which would delay it for a year." - I suspect this is too much to hope for.
  (tags: government )
  
  
• How 'workfare' affects you
  Again: how in cthulhu's name have we let this happen? Why are my taxes subsidising Tescos to "employ" people at less than minimum wage?
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• Charlie Brooker: When the Daily Mail calls rightwingers stupid, the result is dumbogeddon | Comment is free | The Guardian
  Charlie Brooker on the Daily Fail article I linked to the other day
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• lanning points out that Mark Gatiss is something of a pot referring to kettles
  This is NSFW but very very funny. You'll never be able to watch Spearhead From Space without giggling again. And really, I love Mark Gatiss to bits (as I'm sure most of you are aware) but this is a very valid point
  (tags: gatiss )
  
  
• Government rejects pardon request for Alan Turing
  They have to do something EVERY DAY to piss me off now, don't they? Bloody government.
  (tags: law )
  
  

Comments

[karohemd]

- Re: Spearhead, wasn't one of the ships in Spaceballs distinctly cock-shaped? Has Gatiss complained about Who slashfic or what brought this on?

- The Turing thing pisses me off, too but if they pardon him, they really should pardon everybody else who was ever prosecuted under that act or it wouldn't be fair as I'm quite sure Turing wasn't the only gay person who (would have) achieved great things.

[jo]

Re: Warhorse - of course it's unrealistic - it's a Stephen Spielberg film. Anyway, I never had plans to see the film (legally or otherwise) - but I do have tickets to see the play here in Toronto in April! That I am looking forward to.

[almostwitty]

Someone's recently been suggesting that I join the Chinese Lib Dems, and my natural inclination was to say No, purely because we've now seen what the LibDems will "agree" to in the pursuit of power.

Your link has moderated my opinion somewhat... but there's a huge PR battle to be fought really...