The Blood is The Life 15-11-2012
Thursday, November 15th, 2012 09:00 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_s_b- When Men Get Too Emotional To Have A Rational Argument
- Some Thoughts on Hot Chilli Production | Sarah Brown's Blog
This! Also, if you fancy growing your own chilis, check out The Chili King blog.
- Sun and Daily Mail back down over 120,000 'problem' families | Full Fact
See! Factchecking websites WORK!
- Colin Baker on 50th Anniversary, Movie | Doctor Who TV
- How Darwin took on Intelligent Design | New Humanist
- Bleeding-Heart Liberals Refuse to Deport Foreign Extremist
- Heaton-Harris and Delingpole referred to Northants police for possible breach of electoral law « Better Nation
Appears to be a bit straw-graspy to me, but we'll see how it pans out.
- November 25th: UK Science Blog Prize awards evening. | Soho Skeptics
Rooting for BrainFlapping myself...
- Exclusive: Private landlords evading at least £550 million tax on rental incomes - Home News - UK - The Independent
- Despicable Me/Avengers crossover fanart
Made me giggle
- The FJP — Omnishambles: The Oxford English Dictionary’s 2012 Word of the Year
- Quaequam Blog! » Andreas Whittam Smith and why Democracy 2015 should be called Technocracy 2015
Long but interesting post on the state of democracy in the UK
- Former Cop to Rachel Maddow: Legalizing Pot is a "Win-Win" | Alternet
- Love and Liberty: My Best Posts 2011-2012 – and A Pledge To Help Revive the Lib Dem Blog of the Year Awards
Daddy Alex wants to revitalise the botties - and I hereby pledge to join in the effort.
- Humans Are Becoming Stupider Over Time, Geneticist Finds | The Mary Sue
- Personality Quiz: Could You Survive as the Doctor's Companion? | Anglophenia | BBC America
I made it unscathed. YAY!
- Let's go spoil some ballots! - Milena Popova
I understand many people's wish to not vote this time. Please, if you're not going to vote for a candidate (and I would really like you to vote Lib Dem) go and spoil your ballot. Spoilt ballots have to be counted, and it means that your disgust doesn't get discounted as you being lazy AKA voter apathy.
- Woman Denied Abortion Dies — The Hathor Legacy on Savita
- What if the tax and benefits system already rewards marriage?
- David who? Bowles beats Cameron in poll of EU's most influential Britons | World news | The Guardian
"Sharon Bowles, the Liberal Democrat MEP who chairs the European parliament's monetary affairs committee, emerges, perhaps surprisingly, as Britain's most influential person in and on Europe." - only surprising to the ill-informed British media.
- The database state is not dead, just privatised
- BBC News - West Yorkshire police and crime commissioner candidates
For those of you local to me, here's who you have to choose from.
- Petition | University of Manchester Students' Union: Society funding should not be contingent on endorsement of political causes | Change.org
