Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living

Only 11 years too late

Good to see the government finally adopting some of Chris Morris’s public policy suggestions.

Watch: Brass Eye – Crime (part 3)

(Also parts one and two. The most disturbing thing about watching Brass Eye these days is that the graphics no longer seem at all satirical.)

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What if they called an apocalypse and nobody noticed?

It is said of Babylon that its capture was, two days later, still unknown to parts of the city. — The Politics A striking parenthesis in Aristotle, a propos the recent suggestions at I cite, Poetix, and k-punk that the world has already ended.