- How I Lost My Fear of Universal Health Care
A conservative Republican is converted by experience of the Canadian system.
- Big Finish – Books Special Offers
Big discounts this weekend only!
- Aurora: Nothing Wrong With Politicising A Tragedy
Because sometimes politics is about real stuff.
- Tougher Voter ID Laws
How to stop people voting the wrong way – don’t let them vote at all!
- Lines in the Darkness: An Atlas for the Blind
Amazing.
- Cutting a great road through the truth to get to the Devil
Interesting discussion of Greenpeace’s anti-Shell campaign.
- Aurora Shooting: We’ve Seen This Before
Roger Ebert: “This would be an excellent time for our political parties to join together in calling for restrictions on the sale and possession of deadly weapons. That is unlikely, because the issue has become so closely linked to paranoid fantasies about a federal takeover of personal liberties that many politicians feel they cannot afford to advocate gun control.”
- Why Women Still Can’t Have It All
International relations guru Anne-Marie Slaughter gets personal.
Daily Archives: 21 July 2012
July Books 20) Wonderland, by Mark Chadbourn
The last of the run of Doctor Who novels set between The Power of the Daleks and The Highlanders takes the Doctor, Ben and Polly to San Francisco in 1967, where a flower child called Summer tells the story of an alien power trying to take over the world through bad acid. The first-person perspective is quite rare in Who books, but done well here, though the story has few surprises.
July Books 19) Lucy, by Jamaica Kincaid
A memorable short novel about a Caribbean teenager who comes to the US to look after a white American family’s children. Lucy is a little naïve, a little tactless, sometimes quite observant, and doing some rapid growing up in a strange country. Recommended.