I was amazed to discover from my blog back-catalogue that I have never written about the television licence fee, quite an oddity given how much it pisses me off. For those of you who live outside Great Britain you may well be amazed to discover that we must pay a fee of £140 each year […]

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I know, I know. It happened in Dubai:
“A father-of-three who was found with a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes has been sentenced to four years in a Dubai prison.”
“A search by customs officials uncovered a speck of cannabis weighing just 0.003g - so small it would […]

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With today’s high gas prices, might it be possible to rent a hybrid vehicle like the Toyota Prius from a company like Avis for less than it would cost to drive your SUV? I might try it out; a permanent Prius rental.

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Little pleases me more than a discussion with a modern-day evangelical conservative who has been told all their life by their conservative parents, teachers or mentors that America was ‘founded on God’ and who hold Thomas Jefferson as the embodiment of their values.
The fact is, as mentioned in this post about deism, that Thomas Jefferson’s […]

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