Saved the truly appalling till last…

From here :

“Soldiers were deployed throughout Italy on Monday to embassies, subway and railway stations, as part of broader government measures to fight violent crime here for which illegal immigrants are broadly blamed.”

It’s unbelievable — especially given that…

I’ve blogged before about the end of the future — the idea that people don’t look forward to a bright (or dark) future of great change with incredible social or technological changes just around the corner.

Anyway — a link from BoingBoing to a picture parody of that.

A lot of the reason…

• Miscellanea: One Million Terrorists (Wellington Grey comic)
• Including — Former Assistant AG on Terror Watch List
• Iran: US will seek green light to open base in Tehran
• Which goes nicely with… Countdown…

Okay — another random set of links — but this time is the last one ever. In future my links will be on this feed.

Miscellanea: Future Planning (otherwise known as Kurzweil vs reality).

Jewish wedding — really looking forward to December!

Crime: Juror’s detective work leads to…

CQ Politics has catalogued all the votes in the Senate and House during the Bush presidency and produced a table of how pro/anti…

Former Seattle Police Chief on the high costs of the drug war — Although no chance of a change in public policy while the majority of the electorate is against it. 
Sub-prime crisis: Property crash pushes third of US homebuyers into negative equity

Letters: Prince Charles, science and global hunger…

• Insanely beautiful pictures of the Large Hadron Collider.

• UK P2P fight brewing
• Government promises neighbourhood crime maps
• MPs tell internet firms to police ‘dark side’ of web
• Take the innocent off DNA database, says inquiry — which is one of the things I recently…