by Rob Cottingham | Feb 8, 2005 | Politics
Here’s a doctoral thesis topic, donated freely to whichever desperate grad student is the first to glom onto it: Feminism had the key insight that the personal is political back in the late 60s or early 70s. Most people become parents, and there is little that... by Rob Cottingham | Feb 7, 2005 | Politics
Ben P over at MyDD has posted a primer on U.K. electoral politics that pretty much covers it all in just over 2,000 words. Read it, adopt a Monty Pythony accent, and you too can pass yourself off as a British wonk. Until someone asks you about the Monster Raving Loony... by Rob Cottingham | Feb 6, 2005 | Lexicon for the New Millennium
Residentical – adj. – Describing a residential development architecturally monotonous in design, nearly identical to most other housing developments being built or having been recently built in a given city or area. e.g. “I am so freakin’ sick... by Rob Cottingham | Feb 6, 2005 | Media Mix, Politics
Smoking bans tend to stick to a pattern in their media coverage. Bars and restaurants kick up a storm with dire predictions of economic disaster. They offer a series of “compromises” that generally amount to creating a “no pissing” section of... by Rob Cottingham | Feb 3, 2005 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn
The other sad thing is I was absolutely hooked on exactly this kind of thing when it wasn’t a joke. It’s the BBC’s Look Around You. Here’s hoping it makes its way to this side of the pond soon.
