Tim's Bits and Pieces

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I haven't posted any real content for a while, and this post isn't going to be any different. :-) Here's a cool sheep video in lieu of a serious post.

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Man arrested after kissing his daughter. I hope there's something the that we're not being told here, some sort of reason this is happening other than just insanity, but somehow I suspect not.

Women Are Sort Of More Tentative Than Men, Aren't They?

Often people claim that the government should recognize homosexual marriages and give them the same tax benefits as straight marriages. I can only think of three possible reasons for the government to recognize or encourage (through tax benefits) marriages, either heterosexual or homosexual; interestingly none of these three reasons apply to homosexual marriage.

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Shamelessly stolen from Shots Across the Bow:

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... apparently they favour the Coalition. Really? So how did you come to this conclusion? "The researchers measured bias by counting the number of mentions of left-leaning or right-leaning intellectuals." Like that's a valid measure; basically what they are saying is that the media was slightly more likely to write articles about the party that's actually in power. They also apparently rated the "slant" of various headlines, but that's too subjective to be valid. (Basically all it says is that the researchers where slightly more left-wing than the media as a whole) There was third a final measure they used which was the level of political donations, this is actually a valid measure, though it doesn't measure the slant of the articles in the newspapers, it just indicates that they support that party. The Coalition was in power at the time so it may have been an effort to buy the current government, I would like to see how this changes now that Labour is in power.

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I was at a for-profit campsite called Sharp Park - River Bend campsite yesterday, and I noticed something: the facilities where cleaner and better maintained than those in state-run, National Park campsites, but they still charged considerably less than most National Parks. Perhaps state-run isn't all it's cracked up to be?

Apparently this jerk caught HepC in prison and is now "incapacitated for employments to which he is suited", so he's suing the prison operators. I guess you should have thought of that before beating a three year old to death.

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