Long queues at polling places are a sign, surely, of a country recently freed from tyranny, of one that is experiencing the chance to vote for the first time (I’m thinking of South Africa in 1994, for example). They are not something that you generally expect to see in a mature democracy like the USA. [...]
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@devilgate on Twitter- devilgate: My blog: Youssou N’Dour, Philip Glass, The Kronos Quartet, and Bela Lugosi http://bit.ly/dxOR4e 2010-07-29
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- devilgate: There's a tortoise in my garden! Anyone in #Hackney #E5 lost one? 2010-07-27
- devilgate: Government is replacing the Serious & Organised Crime Agency with a new agency to fight serious & organised crime. What?!?! 2010-07-27
- devilgate: I thought the Boris hire scheme was due to go live today. I pass 5 hire points on way to work, & there wasn't a single Boris at any of them. 2010-07-26
- devilgate: @Reynolds Nah, it's all right: we don't do queues in pubs. Anywhere else, yes, but not pubs. 2010-07-26
- devilgate: @brunns It's got a 9.75 too, of course. 2010-07-26
- devilgate: Aargh! I've just noticed that my iPhone changed "dreich" to "drench" in my last post!!! Making it both an ethnic word AND a grammar failure! 2010-07-26
- devilgate: Even on a drench, drizzly day like this, you can't beat #cycling for getting to work in #London. 2010-07-26