Just a thought.. The next time Obama refers to BP (the oil company with a 40-40-20 split in UK-US-other shareholders) as “British Petroleum”, perhaps the UK press should return the compliment. Anyone care to hear a statement from the President with British East African (and Sandwich Islander) ancestry? Yeh, daft isn’t it?
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Some facts.
Exams have just finished here in Auckland, and I’m waiting for the pre-dawn so I can nip out and get some lovely shots of sunrise over the skyline. In the meantime I recall some fun facts I rediscovered during my exam revision. As a geologist I naturally get involved in all manner of unfashionable things, like [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on July 1, 2010
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/doing-the-math/
Business as “Normal”?
As a follower of Pink News on Twitter, I came across this story earlier in the week. I was today reminded of it by a kiwi comrade who found it reported in a regional paper. It concerns a US teen denied a job or job interview at McDonald’s on the basis of her transgender identity. [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on December 13, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/business-as-normal/
A lesson from history
Whilst stuck in rural [i.e. no internet] Somerset, I passed some of the time reading an old book on US history. Flicking through the section covering the interwar period I came across a particular story which – while under completely different circumstances sounded strangely familiar… 1932 – War Veteran’s “march on Washington” “Politicians whom the gods [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on April 20, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/a-lesson-from-history/
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