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      • Frisky
        08/31/2008
        Flew back from Germany this evening, and felt it was worth remarking on the evolution of security checks at airports. This time, the German official greeted me, frisked me, felt inside my belt, checked my shoes and then gave me a nice pat on the bum. That's the caring side of post 9-11, and fra

      • Whoops dude, wrong leader!
        08/26/2008
        I read with interest the news story about a white supremacist plot to assassinate Barack Obama. I'm very glad it has been thwarted.
        Still, I was perplexed at their choice of target. Surely the man who has done more to undermine the notion of the supremacy of the white man is the current p

      • Malign mid-morning
        08/18/2008
        It often gets said that you should take care when travelling late at night on public transport. Through a thick fog of booze and drugs, unsavoury individuals lurk within the shadows, blades and broken bottle flash under the weak, cheap orange gleam of streetlights, and fellow passengers are paralyse

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