The Weekly Blog Posts - Sunday, January 27 2008
January 27th, 2008 by ThunderDragon
Since everyone else seems to be doing it, I thought I’d start a weekly roundup of good blog posts that I have found during the week, since daily ones are way too much work and I don’t have the time to do it anyway. It will be posted every Sunday, with a couple of posts for each day which I found either interesting or felt were very good.
Monday:
- Mike Ion asks whether we should make voting compulsory. Of course we shouldn’t. Not voting is a choice as well - and besides, making people vote is hardly compatible with the idea of democracy!
- Iain Dale asks why three Scots - and no English people - are invited to discuss English votes and whether the English are discriminated against within the Union. It erally does fall into the category of truth being stranger than fiction…
Tuesday:
- Anthony Barnett at OurKingdom has an incredibly patronising attack on Shane Greer’s opposition to fixed term parliaments. That’s not the way to win friends and influence people, but just to polarise the debate.
- Norfolk Blogger calls Labour Minister Ivan Thomas a “stupid prat” for attempting to throw mud at Nick Clegg. The fact that he is a stupid parat is contestable, but whether he was wrong about Clegg’s proposals is less clear-cut.
Wednesday:
- Freemania gives us an account of the day in the life of the stock market. Very amusing and certainly illuminating!
- Paul Linford says that Conservatives are systematically trying to portray Gordon Brown as “strange”, and must not be allowed to get away with it. But, Paul, aren’t all politicians strange anyway? Is it the fact or the speaking about it that you object to?
Thursday:
- Mr Eugenides is disgusted by the very idea of paying people to lose weight, and points out the precise pattern by which government pretend to be “doing something” about it. Of course it won’t work, no matter how much money they throw at it!
- A. Tory writes a letter to his readers, asking them to look at photos of Gordon Brown. No, this isn’t a new form of torture, but evidence that Gordon Brown is actually spinning his own appearance - or getting very self-conscious about his grey hairs.
Friday:
- Ellee Seymour asks whether men are discriminated against. To which of course the answer is yes. Just in different ways to women.
- Cassilis says that his arse isn’t tainted… or does he mean that Gordon Brown’s is? Read it and see.
Saturday:
- Tim Worstall points out yet another mistake to the Grauniad subs. But we should really be used to them making such mistakes by now! Maybe someone should take up the task of going through the paper each day with a red pen and then posting it back to them?
- Prodicus asks the hacks of the dead-tree press to keep up with times. Well, some people will never emerge from the Dark Ages, let alone understand modern technology!
Sunday:
- Chris Dillow has a few ideas for a liberal left manifesto. Some of it is good, some of it isn’t.
- The Adam Smith Institute absolutely destroys common error number 18, that “positive discrimination is needed to make good to minorities the effects of past exploitation or discrimination.”
- Graachi wonders why a UN university no longer seems to want to remain a fantasy. Probably just because they can.
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