Now for something more controversial....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/19/drugs-decriminalisation-aids

Never mind the poor potheads....Time to decriminalise Smack. It's a public health issue, after all.

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So Gentleman Jim Ballard died.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8007331.stm

The_Voices_of_Time was the first short story I read that caused me sleepless nights: I must have been about eleven and precocious. It was in an eponymous compendium of short stories.

The_Atrocity_Exhibition contains the memorable line "Jackie Kennedy your eyelids deflagrate..."

The greatest of the "New Wave"? If not, pretty damn close.