April 2002

08Apr02

The numbing predictability of it. Unfortunately I can't link to this, but the main political cartoon in today's Guardian has Bush with a missile-shaped "inhumane dog controller" in his hands and Blair as a lap-dog looking up at him with a missile-shaped bone in his mouth. Sharon is a fat hound wallowing in blood behind […]

Read More

07Apr02

Blimey. Our Tone joins Dubya in threatening Iraq. Now I'm supposed to spout some clichés about Western imperialism and link to a cartoon depicting Blair and Bush waving their missile-shaped penises or something. Instead, I'll remind certain people that until the British “illegally” exercised their imperialist muscle in Sierra Leone (poorest country in the World, […]

Read More

07Apr02

Immortal? It can get kind of lonely, can't it? Bringing together small minorities is something the Web does well and the "terminally challenged", or "TCs" as I shall refer to them, are no exception. There is now a Web community where the mortally disadvantaged can go to discuss eternal life with others. If you are […]

Read More

06Apr02

We interrupt this programme to bring a personal message for Claire Berlinski. You very kindly sent me an email when you stumbled on counsell.com, but I can't reply to it. Your mail server keeps bouncing it back because you have exceeded your message quota, you popular international literary star, you. Send me an alternate contact […]

Read More

03Apr02

Our Woman in Israel, Judith Wrubel Levy, sent a link to this excellent, balanced and grimly realistic article on how the U.S. and U.N. should respond to the situation in Israel. You need to register (free) with the New York Times online to read it.

Read More

01Apr02

Apt that my first official Web log entry should combine April Foolery, geekiness and Google, God's own search engine. Check out their extraordinary pigeonrank technology. Talking of April Fool's day…

Read More