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The housing crisis: don't look too closely

I don't believe there should be bail outs for people who bought ridiculous mortgages. People aren't stupid, they knew the terms. The fault lies with the global monetary system itself. They have created a system where ALL money is d3ebt based. There IS ...

From DAMIAN LANIGAN, The Telegraph,  10 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Thomas Jefferson,  Google Inc.

Geert Wilders: al-Qa'eda's best friend

Watching Geert Wilders' film Fitna is about the most unedifying way you could spend fifteen minutes. The fact that Wilders might pay for his trouble with his life doesn't make his actions brave. There's a distinction between bravery and foolishness: ...

From DAMIAN LANIGAN, The Telegraph,  3 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Geert Wilders

Want to buy a rubbish chair?

For a mere E990 you can buy a replica of Glenn Gould's chair. The thing has always looked to me like the chair Le Chiffre might have used to torture James Bond in Casino Royale, but who am I to judge? I tend to think of chairs as being things upon ...

From DAMIAN LANIGAN, The Telegraph,  1 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Glenn Gould,  James Bond

If foreigners could vote in the US

Full coverage of the US Elections 2008 This Wall Street Journal piece asks who foreigners would vote for in this year's Presidential election. I'm sure one of these turns up every electoral cycle, and am equally sure none of them gets round to saying ...

From DAMIAN LANIGAN, The Telegraph,  31 Mar 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  U.S. Republican Party,  Harriet Miers

Do we really have to talk about race?

Two faces of the race debate: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright "(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him,"[....] "The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans."...."From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in ...

From DAMIAN LANIGAN, The Telegraph,  27 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Jonah Goldberg

Writing: why bother? Volume II

A couple of days ago 'John Storm', a regular and esteemed commenter on this page, asked the question that all writers have to answer eventually: why bother? My answer at the time was flimsy and panicked. Yes I’ll have to answer the question eventually, ...

From DAMIAN LANIGAN, The Telegraph,  14 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Martin Amis

George Bush: too dumb for word

The genius of George W. Bush is that he's so flat out dumb he's made it impossible for people to talk about how dumb he is. What I mean is, you're not allowed to write about his cosmic stupidity because people will accuse you of crashing through an ...

From DAMIAN LANIGAN, The Telegraph,  14 Mar 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush

A politician says sorry - kind of

Here's a transcript of a speech not given by any Governors yesterday: "Male society is quite accepting of the sex industry" "So, they got me. I indulged in a pretty much victimless crime a few times over the course of a few years, and they got me. I ...

From DAMIAN LANIGAN, The Telegraph,  13 Mar 2008

Bloggers and their underpants

David Simon, Executive Producer of the fine HBO show The Wire is asked why, in doing a story line about the press, he didn't feature bloggers. The blogger's equivalent of a three-piece suit? He says: "If you're saying that there needed to be scenes of ...

From DAMIAN LANIGAN, The Telegraph,  11 Mar 2008
Related Topics: David Simon,  HBO

Obama and Hillary: Daffy and Bugs?

The apparently boundless demand for new angles on current political events is forcing people into questionable analyses. Today a friend told me about this effort in Slate last week that likened Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to Daffy Duck and Bugs ...

From DAMIAN LANIGAN, The Telegraph,  11 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

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