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"Doctor Foster

Went to Gloucester

In a shower of rain.

He would have stepped in a puddle

Right up to his middle

But luckily he was a GP so was driving one of his Range Rovers to the golf course while his receptionist referred all his patients to the local chemist."


"One, two buckle my shoe

Three, four, knock at the door

Five, seven is it? I'm sorry, I went to a state school that felt that arithmetic was not as important as teaching me about lesbians and socialism."

OK, new york times isn't exactly the blogosphere, but it is a rather beautiful and interesting way of representing total box office receipts, broken down by film and time, for the last 25 years

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/23/movies/20080223_REVENUE_GRAPHIC.html#

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Best analysis of the Jasmine spring and how it will affect western policy I've yet read

http://crookedtimber.org/2011/02/26/after-the-sauds/


"Uncounted billions (counting Iraq, trillions) of dollars have been spent on the premise that the US has a vital interest in determining political outcomes in the Middle East. Yet in the current upsurge the US Administration has been reduced to the role of a bystander at a sporting event of which they don?t know the rules"


and more on whether Saudi Arabia could be next

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/28/yes_it_could_happen_here

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