Russ McClintock - the blog

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Offering a grammar lesson guaranteed to make any English teacher cringe, President George W. Bush told a group of New York school kids on Wednesday: “Childrens do learn.”
Bush made his latest grammatical slip-up at a made-for-TV event where he urged Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act, the centerpiece […]

NEW YORK - How do you keep a leader as verbally gaffe-prone as U.S. President George W. Bush from making even more slips of the tongue? When Bush addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, the White House inadvertently showed exactly how — with a phonetic pronunciation guide on the teleprompter to get him […]

Small town life.
Broken down steel mills.
Abandoned shopping centers.
Abandoned trolleys.
Cash points.

If you love them, spay and neuter them.

This is a tight shot of a fairly typical hedge.

It felt like a throwback to the heyday of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. In the early hours of yesterday morning, hundreds of cars, buses and trucks carrying students, black activists and outraged citizens from halfway across the United States converged on the tiny town of Jena, deep in the Louisiana backwoods, to demand justice […]

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Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has stunned the world of football by leaving Stamford Bridge by mutual consent. The decision comes after the club held a crisis meeting to discuss the indifferent start to the new season.
Mourinho, 44, joined Chelsea in June 2004 and led them to the Premiership title in each of his first two […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A student with a history of taping his own practical jokes was released from jail yesterday, a day after he was arrested and Tasered by University of Florida police when he confronted Sen. John Kerry at a campus forum.
Andrew Meyer, 21, spent a night in jail after the bizarre incident Monday, which […]

I found the Stella Vine exhibition at the Modern Art Oxford to be lovely. I especially enjoyed the way that she made Jose Mourinho look like a poofter.

The University of Oxford is comprised of about 500 different ‘colleges’. Most of them look kind of like this one.

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“I don’t have any photos up here yet as I don’t have a scanner. However, once I get my hands on one I’ll be sure to put some up. So for now, you’ll have to settle with a picture of my holga and viewing some incredible lomo shots on flickr ‘crapr’.”

The unpublished results of authoritative research into cannabis confirm the “skunk” now on sale in England is stronger than it was a decade ago, but demolish claims that a new “super-strength skunk” - which is 20 times more powerful - is dominating the market. - The Guardian, September 17, 2007.