He began by patronising his readers and the people who pay his wages ("many Australians seem to have no idea what human rights are, and many certainly do not understand what free speech is") and then made this curious and revealing claim: Codes of conduct play an enormously important role in filling the gap between what is technically legal, and civilising and normalising behaviour.
In the two details that make this curious, the lovelorn happen to be some of the most informed, exacting fans on Earth -- those of the English Premier League -- and the object happens to be an American soccer player who is not a goalkeeper.
In silico characteristics, such as lack of predicted signal peptides and a skew in positively charged residues in the C-terminal region, a common attribute of some T4SS effectors [2], make this curious protein a candidate for type IV secretion.
All of which makes this a curious juncture for Mr Brown to commit himself to tax cuts, if only of a few billion pounds, in two years' time.
What makes this more curious is that the two novellas in the book, "Frenzy" and "Her Body Knows", were written in February 2002 and June 2001 respectively, when violence in Palestine and Israel reached its bloodiest stages.
What makes this even more curious is that the big banks, which have historically offered their customers worse deals than smaller banks, have not changed their ways: they pay less for deposits, charge more for loans, make billions from overdraft fees, and have jacked up credit-card rates.
What makes this decision so curious is that home tax software is the quintessential "sticky" product.
In the end, we're still left wondering what made this great, curious man tick.
Of course, the Jets are already winning plenty, which makes this dustup even more curious.
The fact that similar programmes in the Netherlands have been initiated by the government in the past makes this all the more curious.
