Wal-Mart, subsidies, the free market and the State

Sorry, very old this, but the winner of our Totally Unofficial World Cup Competition is Planeshift, who blogs here. Nobody scored a point after the final update I gave here, so in the event of a tie I say who wins. On balance, I reckon awarding the prize to the non-Sharpener is most likely to see us ducking complaints to Ofcrapcomp, or whatever body is supposed to be regulating these matters.

So, Planeshift, I’m emailing you *now*. Prepare to be dazzled by our munificence.

Civilians and Soldiers
…and cross-border kidnappings

Lieberman falls farther behind in Connecticut race
Paying the price of Bushlovin’

The BBC website has a reasonably sensible, if not impartial, article by a sports shooter about guns – specifically, on how they’re fun and basically safe, except for the very rare occasions when evil people get hold of them and go massacring.

Unsurprisingly, the ‘have your say’ comments are full of the usual suspects saying things like “aha, you said ‘except sometimes’. How dare you expect even one innocent person to die for your fun?” This argument is generally hard to refute without sounding callous, but it’s wrong.

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Stars, Stripes, and Ramblings
Blair in America

Goalkeeping And Killing Arabs
Via the demise of the British Liberal Party

We’re all chetniks now
The curious case of contrarian General Mackenzie

UK and California strike climate change deal

Someone has to post here, so it may as well be me. This is in part a follow up to my last post and part just my weak-willed submission to overwhelming temptation. (WARNING! Some righty-baiting follows.)
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