Category Archives: in the news

No fly

By 6000 | 6000 | February 3, 2011

Love this from American site loweringthebar.net: According to the Daily Mail Online, an immigration officer who worked for the UK Border Agency managed to get his wife out of his hair for three years by putting her name on the no-fly list while she was visiting the in-laws overseas. Officials confirmed on January 30 that the [...]

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Incoming

By 6000 | 6000 | February 2, 2011

Screenshot of Cyclone Yasi approaching the Queeensland coast (flimsy white line on the left of the picture). Taken from this site. Appropriately reminiscent of a Chinese Dragon at the start of the Chinese New Year, I felt.

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Just another ANCYL press release

By 6000 | 6000 | February 1, 2011

I swear, you can’t make this sort of thing up. But someone does. This one goes out to all those overseas people who will think that it was me that made it up. First came this, from ANCYL President Julius Malema at the pre-opening party of the ZAR nightclub in Cape Town: Helen Zille will [...]

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Colours to the mast…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 31, 2011

With the 2011 Municipal Elections not far away (don’t forget to register to vote this weekend, folks) the election machinery of our erstwhile political parties is once again being dusted off after a couple of years in the shed and already the first posters (albeit registration posters, rather than election posters) are being blown off the [...]

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Future criminal?

By 6000 | 6000 | January 26, 2011

I was pointed to this article by [someone] on twitter. I can’t remember who. If it was you, you can claim the credit and I’ll insert your name in between those square parentheses right there. But anyway, having young children and being of a scientific disposition, I was immediately intrigued by the …recently-completed study that [...]

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