Wow. Bizarro World sucks. Poor John Naughton. Can't someone go through a wormhole or a stargate or something and rescue him from the Evil Alternate Universe?
(Via Tim Blair.)
Posted by Andrea Harris at June 15, 2003 11:52 AMStargates don't go to alternate universes. You need that weird-ass mirror thing for that.
But, yeah, you have to wonder what Naughton's been smoking.
Posted by: Robert Crawford at June 16, 2003 at 09:49 AMI do wish British journalists would stop fretting over what's happening on the potentially-restricting-civil-liberties front in the US and expend their energy making a case against it in the UK, where it's bad enough.
Posted by: Steven Chapman at June 16, 2003 at 11:19 AMYou mean stuff like this proposal (via Jeff Jarvis) to "protect the privacy rights of celebrities"? Hey, [OBLIGATORY ORWELL REFERENCE] some of us are more equal than others... [/OBLIGATORY ORWELL REFERENCE] And of course there are those wonderful "the eyes are watching you" posters.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at June 16, 2003 at 11:30 AMIf the U.K. is lucky, they might be able to keep their wonderful libel laws, where truth isn't a sufficient defense, as it is here in America.
Posted by: Dark Avenger at June 16, 2003 at 11:49 AMI find it amusing to be lectured on civil liberties by someone from a country that:
has no written constitutionhas essentially banned firearms
makes it a crime to criticize religion
has a long history of colonization
restricts the right to a jury trial
restricts habeas corpus
controls the public airwaves and forces people to pay for it
gotta stop, my fingers are getting sore.
Posted by: Ken Summers at June 16, 2003 at 03:11 PM