Casting the net - Did he really say that?


by Aaron    
March 13, 2008 at 10:30 am

Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments. Another set of quick links today as I have a train to catch.

Links
Political Betting - Could Balls have just lost Labour the election?
Crooked Timber - Dead heats and democracy [US elections, and succession]
Spy Blog - Reporters Without Borders: new updated version of the “Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents”
Earthpal - Child Poverty and the Budget
anticant - The need to be right
Cassilis - This weeks Think Tank Roundup….
Freakonomics - A Call Girl’s View of the Spitzer Affair
Dave Osler - London elections: the far left case for a Labour vote
Mark Mardell’s Euroblog/BBC - Why the budget didn’t go as far as Mr Brown would like
Martin Kettle - Not until 2010, Darling
Jo Christie-Smith - Worrying about homophobia in schools? Don’t be so gay…
Liberal Burblings - Darling’s budget: Is that all there is?

Viral Corner

via. HuffPo

BTW. It was clearly “so weak”. He was mouthing it back at Cameron as soon as Dave jumped.

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9 Comments in response   ||  



at 11:33 am on March 13, 2008
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1.  comment by
     cjcjc

The way tax has gone up it might as well have been “so what?” !

at 12:20 pm on March 13, 2008
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2.  comment by
     Publicansdecoy

Hello. tooting my own horn now, but I’d be very interested for any views on this:

Why don’t men wear skirts?

at 1:58 pm on March 13, 2008
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3.  comment by
     Matt Munro

Ever heard of kilts ?

Men don’t wear skirts becasue women expect them to wear trousers, in the same way that women expect them to shave, put on suits and ties, fight wars, fix cars, mow the lawn and put up shelves.

Anyone who thinks the links between gender and behaviour are arbitarary really should do an elementary biology course, or even just google “hormones” and “endocrine system” because apparently your sex does actually determine your behaviour, inedependently of any cultural conditioning, shocking and controversial as it may seem……..

at 2:47 pm on March 13, 2008
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4.  comment by
     Publicansdecoy

Kilts are seen as men’s clothing in a way other skirts aren’t.

How do you explain the many, many men who want to do thinkgs men aren’t supposed to, and women who want to do things women aren’t supposed to. Are they biological freaks?

at 2:56 pm on March 13, 2008
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5.  comment by
     QuestionThat

Re. “So What”: Just because he mouthed “so weak” at Cameron doesn’t mean that’s he said in the first place.

If it wasn’t, Cameron was very nimble-minded indeed to instantly shout “So What!?!?”

at 4:09 pm on March 13, 2008
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6.  comment by
     Lee Griffin

It’s a good post Publicansdecoy, well worth the read

at 3:38 am on March 14, 2008
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7.  comment by
     Sunny Hundal

That tirade by Oberman is brilliant. He’s pissed! I love biased American news television… its grotesque but fascinating…

at 12:23 pm on March 14, 2008
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8.  comment by
     leon

Very dramatic but the guy in the vid speaks a lot of sense…

at 12:47 pm on March 14, 2008
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9.  comment by
     Matt Munro

“How do you explain the many, many men who want to do thinkgs men aren’t supposed to, and women who want to do things women aren’t supposed to. Are they biological freaks?”

In the same way that you explain some people are left handed but most people are right handed. Nature and nurture interract in sometimes unpredictable ways. The vacuous nonsense that is cultural relativism also encourages people to think that being “diverse” somehow makes them more interesting/fashionable

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