Second chances

Wait, I thought Dave believed in giving people a second chance. http://bit.ly/icK8Rx http://bit.ly/gUFzqj

Good King Wenceslas

In Washington Sq, in New York, on Christmas Eve, we only sang the first verse of each carol.

Good King Wenceslas looked out, saw a poor man gathering fuel in the cruel frost, then presumably went back to bed untroubled by his conscience while the singers moved on to something jaunty about Santa Claus.

Reading 100 Poems in a day

Today I will be reading 100 Poems, one every ten minutes. It's going to be tough I know, especially as I will be doing this as well as a full day of work, but I reckon I can pull it off.

New Kinds of Crime

Mr Brown told a crime conference in west London: "We face new kinds of crime - especially knife crime, organised crime, ...

Bad Simile

Sarah Palin is like a bad simile: at first she seems to offer a fresh new perspective but later you realise she doesn't really fit, contradicts herself, and is kind of dumb.

Much like this post in fact.

A tax on the stupid?

Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards.

The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: "On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't.

"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it.

You tell 'em Tina!

A certain discrepancy

I rarely read the news these days, I only glance over the headlines. Here are two of today's headlines:

Madrid victims attack 'leniency'
Angry victims of the 2004 Madrid train bombings have vowed to appeal over what they see as the trial court's lenient treatment of some of the accused.


and ...

Madrid bombers sentenced to 40,000 years