I imagine our american cousins are laying in supplies for the superbowl right now.

It seems that British politics has decided to take a holiday while everybody exercises their opinions on the behaviour of the now ex-England Captain

keep to the Fen Causeway

   "The founders of the discipline of economics, almost to a man - and they were only men - thought that the problem of distribution between classes - they used the word classes - was the key to understanding why nations grew or not," Bowles says. What Bowles sees as the essence of his profession [is] problems of wealth distribution...

    Isn't inequality merely the price of America being No. 1?

    "That's almost certainly false," Bowles tells SFR. "Prior to about 20 years ago, most economists thought that inequality just greased the wheels of progress. Overwhelmingly now, people who study it empirically think that it's sand in the wheels." ... Bowles offers a key reason why this is so. "Inequality breeds conflict, and conflict breeds wasted resources," he says.

    In short, in a very unequal society, the people at the top have to spend a lot of time and energy keeping the lower classes obedient and productive.

Back in the days when it was normal to see news shows or stories discussing the fact that torture doesn't work (and not giving any credence to the illusion that it does work), I didn't worry so much about the way torture seemed to work in dramatic fiction. Trouble is, everyone now talks like this fakery works in real life, and there's no good speech allowed to counteract the bad speech. This stuff was "just a movie" or "just a TV show" back when no one was trying to claim the effectiveness of torture as fact - but those days are gone.

There have been innumerable studies over the past few years about women returning to work after having a baby.

Some focus on the guilt that many women with babies feel when they have to leave their precious bundle for the first time; others look at the support they receive in the workplace.

Then there are the surveys that examine the adequacy or otherwise of maternity/paternity leave; the issue of parental leave and parent-friendly hours when the babies start school.

So, how did it make you feel when you read that the headmistress of private school St Mary's Calne School, Wiltshire, returned to her desk just SEVEN hours after she had given birth to her third child?

Dr Helen Wright tells The Daily Mail (February 7, 2010) that she believed she was setting a good example by taking her hours-old daughter Jessica to the office with her.

"Most mothers want their daughters to have the exhilarating excitement of a career they love and the joy of a family," she tells the paper.

"I have that and I want to show the girls at St Mary's that that is not an impossible dream."

LA PAZ, Bolivia - After reinventing Bolivia's government to reflect the country's multi-ethnic, Indian majority, President Evo Morales is championing gender parity at the highest levels of government.
Women now account for half of Bolivia's Cabinet ministers -- 10 out of 20 -- as Morales embarks on his second term following his Jan. 22 swearing-in ceremony.

From the Orange Giant:

Blaming feminists for all the world's evils is nothing new. (...)

GAME ON.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

MIDDLETOWN - Witnesses and emergency response authorities said as many as 100 people were injured and an undetermined number may have died when a massive explosion, which homeowners felt more than 10 miles away and mistook for an earth quake, blew up a power plant being built on the Connecticut River in the southern section of Middletown at about 11 a.m. Sunday.

Medical rescue personnel said at least 100 were injured, four critically, and two were dead. "There are bodies everywhere," a witness said. Another witness said many victims may be buried in rubble

An hour after the explosion and what is believed to be the Kleen Energy Systems plant on River Road, emergency rescue personnel were continuing to arrive by vehicle and helicopter. Helicopters were airlifting victims to area hospitals.

There were as many as 20 ambulances at the plant.

Neighbors of the plant said as many as 100 employees may have been working there when the explosion took place. Confirmed information about damage and injuries from authorities was difficult to obtain.

Hubert de Lartigue is a French artist who makes Origami Star Wars ships out of Parisian subway tickets. [Ed Note: Which, honestly, can you even think of a worthier occupation than that?]

The biblio-archeological expedition has reached the 1970s strata and unearthing books that are either out-of-date text and technical books or political 'stuff' it would be kinder to rebury -- anyone want a copy the the WeatherUnderground's Prairie Fire?  

I didn't think so.

 

No one could have predicted

...And another storm coming Tuesday afternoon.  5-15".  Fuck.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

Is it too early to write this one off ? The Saints aren't doing anything and the Colts are moving the ball with ease.

keep to the Fen Causeway