The most recent 20 comments posted to Electrolite by Ken Brown:

Oy! Americans! Get up and vote!

And thanks for the Kipling. (I probably have read it before having a couple of copies of his complete verse - but there's such a lot of it I can't remember!)

Apropos of nothing much, it seems to be a development of something from the Bible, in 1 Samuel chapter 8, where the people ask the prophet Samuel to get them a king:

Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day."

This Brit is more worried at the idea that war with Iran could be imagined as a vote-winning Ocober surprise.

Please tell me that it would lose votes, like it would in any other country?

I had a genuine shiver of fear when I read that just now. At least we won't be in if you d. It is still just remotely possible that Blair will have to go because of Iraq - none of our lot are likely to want to bomb Iran.

That said, I think I agree with Charlie (after all, he "define[s] the current position of sf's cutting edge" according to Brian Stableford, so he must have something going for him). It seems likely bL's body was eaten by jackals under a pile of rocks many months ago.

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