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I know e e cumming's work well - possibly my favourite poet - and I can't help but think that he has earned his specific usage of capitalisation through his (often rather underrated) work. Can't speak about k.d lang, but this made me smile.

I don't think that circletimessquare has earned his pissyness though - though he doubtless believes that he has.

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/201...

You may laugh, but the terrorists are all over that.

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/201...

Controversially, the new edition of the book [Bible On: Just Try to be Nice] has updated the names of some characters, and Jesus has been removed completely. 'He's been a bit hard to relate to since the '70s, if I'm honest', explained co-author Ken Flowers. 'If a kid is faced by a bearded man in sandals claiming that if they follow him they will experience endless love, they're probably going to report him to Childline. That's why we've replaced him with a talking bear called Nigel, who looks sad if you drop litter, or knock something over.'

Boundary> http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/07/05/nick-clegg-to-repeal-second-law-of-thermodynamics/

The really clever bit being that Professor Brian Cox really is a top-ranking physics professor, who was indeed the keyboardist for the band D:Ream who did have a UK number one hit "Things can only get better" that was used as the election theme tune for the previous government. Which puts the satire way above The Onion. You'd have thought that a CERN scientist wouldn't have penned such an inaccurate song, although "Things will get more and more random" probably wouldn't have achieved the same chart success.

I think it's happening because of this article on a British clone of The Onion, called NewsBiscuit... http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/07/05/nick-clegg-to-repeal-second-law-of-thermodynamics/

Fine? How about prison?

It's said that a lot of women are in prison because they cannot pay the fines from not having a TV license.

BBC admits going too far with TV license reminder slogan 'Your Arse Won't be Safe in Prison'

I jest?

Ha! the wonderful belief that free market capitalism will solve all the worlds problems and mitigate poverty!

Do you really think that private corporations with no compulsions other than "shareholder value" will consider the good of the poor?

The private corporations don't have to care. That's the point of capitalism. The whole thing is based on the idea that if you have something I want and I have something you want, we negotiate until we find some mutually beneficial exchange which leaves us both better off. The crucial point is that I am only worried about my own well-being.

Do you really think that you and I would be better off if we sent our two things in to some central government committee, which would evaluate how much they were worth, how much we needed them, and how much we deserved, then take a cut to fund the system before handing us our Fair Share? I would much rather deal directly, TYVM.

That many large corporations (such as my employer) make correspondingly large donations to charity is also something to bear in mind, but the point is that it's not required, and the system ensures that there are advantages anyway.

The problems that we are seeing now are due to some misguided attempts to mess with the workings of the system. It's complex, with all sorts of feedback, and most of its failure modes are quite spectacularly nasty for those affected. I just hope They can reboot it in time: http://newsbiscuit.com/article/world-leader-agree-rescue-plan-turn-all-the-computers-off-and-then-turn-them-back-on-again-382

I read that they are getting fed up with all the goats