Samantha Bee (voiceover): We’ve heard their words…but let’s look at the facts: George W. Bush once molested my grandma, while John Kerry held her down with bags of money provided by gay French Jews. On November 2, tell George W. Bush and John Kerry you support freedom…by writing a check to “Americans for 527 Ads”!

Bee’s “grandma”: Don’t let them do it again!

Bee: I’m Samantha Bee, and I approved this campaign finance loophole.

At any rate a successor may not have the will, experience or desire to follow Mr Sharon’s plans.

I remember being MO in the round where you proposed a ‘proliferation is good’ agenda. It was interesting, and certainly cut to the core of some questions about proliferation and rationality.

Kate,

I’ve not yet read any Murakami, but given the universal endorsement I’ve heard of it, I am looking forward to making a start. I’m starting to get seriously nervous about the stats exam next Friday, however.

Having said that, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an excellent book anyway (and better than his most famous book, Norwegian Wood in my opinion, but not as good as Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World which was the first one I read!).

I read it in second year; after getting beat over the head with “nuclear weapons are bad” for the longest time, it really changed how I look at the world, or at least academic discourse.