What’s new for Wednesday:
- Sign a farewell card for Rush Limbaugh — Does Costa Rica actually allow know drugs felons into their country?
- Justin McKeating’s summing up of Labour’s horrible human rights record makes for grim reading. How much worse could the Tories really be in this regard?
- Everyday heroism in action in Amsterdam. Via Making Light.
- UK expels Israeli diplomat in forged passports row — murdering political opponents? Not a problem. Using our passports –whoa, hang on a minute!
- In Australia, a dumb environmental p.r. stunt leads to an even more moronic anti-environment stunt. And people wonder why so many are turned off by politics.
- Victory to the British Gas strikers the civil servant strikers, the BA strikers. Now if only the news coverage of hese strikes would focus less on the whinging of entitled middleclass consumers being inconvenienced and more on the reasons why workers are striking…