Politics, Tribalism, Religion - the Usual Light Relief

Not that I mean to make things even more pompous and portentous around here than they already are, but I just read an article about Evangelical Christians in America causing family schisms by switching their vote to the Democrats and found myself bubbling away with inane chatter once more. Sorry.
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Candythief

I am forever baffled by how the ears work. I listened to Candythief’s MySpace page a while back and was not just mildly unimpressed, I thought it was a pretty poor effort all round. Quite why, on buying this mini-album at Homegame last week, I suddenly think it’s brilliant is beyond me. [...]

Reading is Changing, But Some Things Aren’t

I read an interesting but slightly frustrating article in The Scotsman the other day, all about kids’ top ten favourite and least favourite things to read. There was a fair bit of hand-wringing about the emergence of blogs and lyrics websites in the favourites, and the inevitable presence of Shakespeare in the least favourite [...]