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“ See, the ball is like the governorship of Alaska, and like any good point guard, Sarah Palin wants to hand off that ball to one of her teammates, walk off the court, and go play on a much bigger field or maybe join drama club or something. She doesn’t want to be one of the dead fish floating in the river playing basketball, because that river is really small and boring and there are so many log jams (aka reporters) trying to steal the ball (aka national security, freedom) and it doesn’t matter anyway because the last time anyone had any interest in that river (aka Alaska) was when Anne Heche did that show about finding a lumberjack (aka Men In Trees), and that has nothing to do with getting the freedomball through the hoop (aka politics?).

— Quitting Is Like Playing Basketball With Dead Fish | Games | A.V. Club

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“ The BNP is not increasing its votes. In both Yorkshire and the north-west, its total number of votes fell from 2004. This absolutely does not mean that more people are being seduced by the BNP’s propaganda. It means that Labour’s share of the vote collapsed and went to other parties, thereby helping the BNP under a proportional system.

— The hope we’ve gained from the BNP | Sunny Hundal

“ I asked what steps they took to notify journalists of their error, which exaggerated their findings by a factor of ten and were widely reported in news outlets around the world. SABIP refused to answer my questions in emails, insisted on a phone call (always a warning sign), told me that they had taken steps but wouldn’t say what, explained something about how they couldn’t be held responsible for lazy journalism, then, bizarrely, after ten minutes, tried to tell me retrospectively that the whole call was actually off the record, that I wasn’t allowed to use the information in my piece, but that they had answered my questions, and so they didn’t need to answer on the record, but I wasn’t allowed to use the answers, and I couldn’t say they hadn’t answered, I just couldn’t say what the answers were. Then the PR man from SABIP demanded that I acknowledge, in our phone call, formally, for reasons I still don’t fully understand, that he had been helpful.

— Home taping didn’t kill music - Bad Science

“ The leader of the UK Independence party (Ukip), which wants to lead Britain out of the EU, has taken £2m of taxpayers’ money in expenses and allowances as a member of the European Parliament, on top of his £64,000 a year salary. Nigel Farage, who is calling on voters to punish “greedy Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem MPs” at the European elections on 4 June, boasted of his personal expenses haul at a meeting with foreign journalists in London last week.

— Ukip leader boasts of his £2m in expenses | Politics | The Observer

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“ Public health crises tend to focus the public on the usefulness of things like science, international cooperation, government coordination. You know, the sort of thing that liberals think are necessary. Something like that simply doesn’t fit into the conservative worldview. They see all problems and challenges in schoolyard terms of good guys and bad guys. This kind of challenge (like global warming) falls outside the paradigm by which they organize their world. Pandemics, like hurricanes, can’t be dealt with by using tough talk and threats. So, they are lost.

— Hullabaloo

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