Or, at least, in my ideal world: This would be part of a viral anti-marketing campaign, perhaps being waged by this lot. It would be called legitimate resistance. And we’d be winning.

Oh, by the way, you can report problems with your oxygen sensor here. Even if you don’t have a car, apparently.

Lest we forget
Calling time on ASI bullshit

Santa dies at children’s party

Merrick wrote here yesterday in defence of the Citizen’s Basic Income. What I find interesting about the non-debate surrounding it is how a policy so close to the mainstream among polbloggers, could be so far from the shores of ordinary politics. Now, it’s easy to psychoanalyse the bloggers, to see what they see in the Basic Income. But why exactly is it ignored everywhere else? Read More

Mulled whine
Further adventures in the conspiracy to claim there’s a conspiracy to ban Xmas

The Limits of Empathy
War as sadism in the DRC

I’m no leader, but…
Italian politics update

Oaxaca Uprising Continues
… not to make the 10 o’clock news

Why oh why can’t we have better economists?

After the election: the Dutch SP in government
Talking options and strategies for the real Dutch left