Random linkages, no real connection

But just a few things I've spotted today and don't feel like making a separate entry for each of them. We'll start with Iain:

I've just seen Michael Howard on the telly, making a speech in which he claims that the most reliable measure of crime levels is the number of crimes recorded by the police. I guess he's done his sums and decided that the demographic of people who actually know what the fuck they're talking about with respect to criminal justice is too small for him to be bothered trying to getting any of them to vote Conservative.

Dave Neiwert continues the demolition job on the 'internment was a good idea' meme:

Michelle Malkin would have us think it would. Her case, though, is built on faulty method, faulty logic, faulty "facts", and an obviously faulty moral compass. Her book is best left shunned, untouched, and eventually, ignored.

Jamie listens to the voices in his head:

No. Stop it. Just fucking stop it. Leave it alone. You’ve been having initiatives non-stop since 1997. Mainly, they’re just attempts to fuck with people’s heads, but sometimes you insist on taking perfectly serviceable public institutions into dark corners and mutilating them horribly. You’ve made the country an international laughing stock under the leadership of a man whose main talent is receiving rich men’s gifts. Because of you, people worldwide think we’re wankers. They argue about America, but they say: “the Brits – what a lot of wankers. Look at that government of theirs. At least we can agree on that”.

Now I know this is our fault. We were desperate, and desperate people fall for conmen in the same way that old folks get bullied into buying useless alarm systems by sleazy door to door salesmen, a technique that David Blunkett has adopted wholesale in his home affairs policy. All you have to offer us is fear, and now we’re so disgusted with ourselves that a lot of us have stopped voting.

We’ll sort it out sometime, but meanwhile just go and sit in a corner, suck your thumbs draw your wages and do nothing.

And finally, Dave discovers the best movie title ever while Alison discovers that Jude Law is a Watchmen fan and has a Rorschach tattoo:

Blimey. Let's 'ave a look. That's fifteen minutes of quality television right there.