Monthly Archives: December 2010

Africa

Blogging is currently light because I am in Africa. You can read the blog of Michael (the person on my debating team) and I, from Botswana, here: Blogswana There is even a video of me debating (I’m the last speaker). … Continue reading

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Hopeless Rebels

Today I arrived for a lecture, to find the building had been occupied by students studying for luxury degrees to protest against cuts, or fees increases, or the lack of things to protest about, or some such cause. There were … Continue reading

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FDA – lrn2science

The FDA has decided that caffeine is an unsafe additive to alcoholic drinks. Following this, the FDA will take this ruling to its logical conclusion and ban all other such drinks: Irish coffee, rum & coke, vodka & red bull … Continue reading

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My House

Or, things that suck with my life: The internet connection never gets faster than 4 KB/s The phone number is shared with a farmer The heating doesn’t work The electricity company is unidentifiable (I have no idea who sells me … Continue reading

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Merit and Success

The mixed economy opens doors for men to amass wealth through their political pull, the positions they were born into or their cunning in fraud: wealth they did not, and could not, produce. This passage from Hugo’s Les Miserables expresses … Continue reading

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