Yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle carried an opinion piece regarding congestion in the city and the problems of the transit system. There’s a suggestion that a $3 a day congestion charge might be introduced to reduce car traffic, but the author suggests that before that can be imposed then the public transport network needs to be [...]
Quiet, isn’t it?
Once upon a time there was a lot of noise made on the web about World AIDS Day, with projects like Link and Think (see various postings on my old blog) encouraging bloggers to join in with the more formal coverage of the day and the spread of the disease. The BBC News [...]
I’ve held off on commenting about the Biden/Palin Vice-Presidential debate last Thursday night, but suffice it to say I watched in stunned amazement as the critical political process of The Last Remaining Superpower(tm) was reduced to a middle-aged man apparently debating world politics with a grade-schooler.
Seriously, if you didn’t see it, you cannot begin to [...]
I am. My drift away from gay bars and clubs started years ago, and since I entered into connubial bliss my motto on the subject has tended to be “why bother when we can stay at home and rewatch Doctor Who?”
My gay political sensibilities atrophied along with the credible gay press in my home country [...]
Me, a mere two days ago:
When I watched the news about it on the day it was announced, the only thing I could think was “who in the world thought it was a sensible idea to have £3trillion of business locked up in a single interlinked pair of businesses?”
The BBC News site, reporting on the [...]
One thing that no amount of knowing it can prepare you for is the sight of California’s Governor being Arnold Schwarzenegger. I mean, intellectually of course you know he got the job, but in your heart you can’t quite accept the reality.
Until as I did last night you see the local news, which is full [...]
So the news from Lehman Brothers is a bit of a shocker, especially as I was reading the article saying that they were going to declare bankruptcy, and by the time I clicked back to the BBC News front page they *had* declared it. That’s a lot of money they lost, and not a great [...]
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