Monthly Archives: June 2008

Vice-President Clinton

Obama is having kinda-secret talks with Clinton about ‘bringing the party together’. There’s some speculation that she might be the VP. I’m hoping that this is just Obama being polite so as not to offend her supporters, because having her on the ticket is a potential disaster – Obama’s big thing is a change from [...]

I’m telling you, billions wasted!

There’s an article on the Beeb about the decline in standards for maths exams in the UK (that’s math for our colonial readers). The decline set in from 1990, which I could have told you already; I left high school in 89, and we generally agreed that the year before us was the last year [...]