Unchallenged traditions

Tim at Pints of Drivel draws a superb parallel between the same-sex marriage debate and the Persons Case. (In short: back in the 1920s, five Canadian women argued women should be able to become Senators, took their case to Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in...

Hunter S. Thompson, 1937 – 2005

I read Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 in my early 20s, and was absolutely enthralled. In some ways, Thompson and his New Journalism contemporaries anticipated political blogging, with its polarized viewpoints and highly idiosyncratic writing. Read...

Ain’t it grand?

Sometime today, ODTAA passed a milestone: for the first time ever, we’ve had more than a thousand unique visitors in a single month. (That thousandth visitor almost certainly came for the blog, by far the most popular part of the site. Which suggests I may not...
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