Public Address 02 - 09/01/07: Pills, Pip, Roundup

More party pill palaver | Jan 09, 2007 10:52
Russell Brown's Hard News

I'm with the Drug Foundation on the idea of people injecting BZP from party pills: if it's happening at all, it's happening on a very small scale and, by definition, amongst existing IV drug users who are doing it for the hell of it...
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Getting the pip | Jan 08, 2007 08:54
Russell Brown's Hard News

The Weekend Herald's lead story was daft even for the silly season. Its dread revelation: Don Brash, like every other MP, and much of the citizenry, has been on holiday. He happens to have been in New York for some of that time...
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D1: Delhi vs Belly | Jan 06, 2007 03:50
Keith Ng from Delhi

Delhi isn't really what I'd expected. For the capital of a supposed up-and-coming IT-superpower, it was pretty strange that it didn't even have a functional ATM at the airport (there was, however, one broken one)...
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Inauspicious | Jan 05, 2007 07:41
Russell Brown's Hard News

The craziest part of the shambolic execution of Saddam Hussein must surely be that the former tyrant was hailed at his end by sectarian chanting from supporters (or actually members) of the militias that the White House is considering sending another few tens of thousands of troops to...
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The Sounds of Silence | Jan 02, 2007 09:52
Graham Reid's many things

Near my keyboard I have a wry quote by the American novelist Sholem Asch: "It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say" Which in part explains why it has been a month since I last posted here...
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