Or genteel drawing-room conversation.

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It's a fine line between homage, parody, and consumer opportunism. Jess Walter

There are no age limits in a black market for cannabis

Howard was on the periphery of my social circle when I lived in London - mainly because, as a major cannabis importer, he had to be peripheral. But I knew a couple of his lieutenants quite well, and he'd occasionally turn up for poker games and/or chats. The Howard Marks I knew is no different from the one speaking in this article. Sort of Régis Debray with an import distribution system based on the global movement of music equipment for performance.

You can't be me, I'm taken

Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives in France and is going through Passport Control.

"Nationality?" asks the immigration officer.

"German" she replies.

"Occupation?"

"No. Just visiting"

You can't be me, I'm taken

We had a discussion a while back of Ireland's need to close their Embassy to the Vatican, due to cost-saving. I discovered the Israeli solution to the problem yesterday. They have a single building in Rome, but on the left of the (single) entrance there is one address (that for the Embassy to Italy) and on the right there is another (that of the Embassy to the Holy See).....

Simply to provoke Helen.

You can't be me, I'm taken

Indie: Errors and Omissions - A comedy of errors

Guy Keleny is a legend. Or he would be if he had not written so eloquently earlier this month about the misuse of "legend" when applied to people who are really good at something and still alive.

You can't be me, I'm taken

Business backing for austerity falters

Business support for the government's austerity plan started to fracture on Thursday after one group called for a small stimulus funded through extra public borrowing.

The British Chambers of Commerce, which represents more than 100,000 businesses, said the UK had enough "wiggle room" to use a "moderate fiscal stimulus" to help lift the stagnant economy.

Wind power

Tony Blair should face trial over Iraq war, says Desmond Tutu | Politics | The Observer

Anti-apartheid hero attacks former prime minister over 'double standards on war crimes'

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for Tony Blair and George Bush to be hauled before the international criminal court in The Hague and delivered a damning critique of the physical and moral devastation caused by the Iraq war.

Tutu, a Nobel peace prize winner and hero of the anti-apartheid movement, accuses the former British and US leaders of lying about weapons of mass destruction and says the invasion left the world more destabilised and divided "than any other conflict in history".

Writing in the Observer, Tutu also suggests the controversial US and UK-led action to oust Saddam Hussein in 2003 created the backdrop for the civil war in Syria and a possible wider Middle East conflict involving Iran.

Better yet, go to the site in HD.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin