The Jews blew up the Twin Towers using Bush’s depleted uranium technology stolen from the spaceship that crashlanded in Area 51! And Blair lied about it! As a mumps epidemic rages across Britain, the BBC News feedback facility flares with the magnesium-bright burn of public stupidity: “What a convenient epidemic! Why didn’t it happen last […]
Read MoreDear Mr Hussein I am Barrister Ife Giza. I represent “Gorgeous” George Galloway, the recently deceased rightful ruler of the People’s Republic of Bethnal Green. I write to you in good faith based on information he gave to me in person during a meeting with him in his office in the Houses of Parliament before […]
Read MoreBecause of a bug in the “Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem”, an extremely obscure site called Blogesque (2 944 978 citations) became the biggest ‘Blog on the planet yesterday, one day after registering with the Ecosystem. I’d have paid good money to see the look on Instapundit‘s (5 451 citations) face when he saw that one appear out of […]
Read MoreArmed with impeccable qualifications, a man applies for a position with a top city company. Unfortunately, he has a problem with one of his eyes: it constantly winks. “We’d love to hire you,” says the managing director, “but that winking is too distracting.” “Wait!”, the applicant says, “I can make it stop by taking two […]
Read MoreOrphan Jack has grown up knowing only the strict but kindly guardianship of Father Anthony, the devout head of the Westminster County Home for Lost Boys. By careful budgeting, Jack’s dour Uncle Gordon has managed to pay for Jack’s care during the eight years since his father disappeared. But now Jack is coming of age […]
Read MoreHow could The Economist have missed this? [Safe for work, but possibly not safe for lunchtime.]
Read MoreWelcome Jonathan Derbyshire and Jackie Danicki to the ‘Blogroll.
Read MoreGeorge Bush beats Britney Spears; Martin Luther beats George Washington; Tony Blair beats Michael Jackson beats Jesus Christ; Bill Clinton beats Saddam Hussein; Osama Bin Laden beats Kofi Annan; Bob Dylan beats Donald Rumsfeld; Angelina Jolie beats Arnold Schwarzenegger. But tough luck to Madonna, Seal, Bono, and Sting. If you’re so famous you have one […]
Read MoreTuesday was the anniversary of Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus” reaching number one in the UK charts (1985). Falco died in a car crash in 1998. By way of honouring him, here are the lyrics to possibly the biggest hit ever recorded by an Austrian: Ooo rock me Amadeus Rock me Amadeus… Rock rock rock rock […]
Read MoreVia Panchromatica comes this lovely little tale of the reach of the Web. As he says, you have to read through the comments of this flickr picture for the delightful coincidence(s).
Read MoreFurther to my discovering that the last Pope was Jewish, were you aware that Wikipedia helpfully furnishes its users with both a list of partial Jews and a list of Jewish superheroes? Bill and Hillary, David Beckham, Elvis, Muriel Gray, The Thing, we hardly knew you. Jewish sportstar (allegedly)
Read MoreI’m surprised that The Independent didn’t suggest one hundred thousand cheering Georgians had mistaken George Bush for George Galloway: “Addressing a 100,000-strong crowd in Freedom Square in Tbilisi yesterday, Mr Bush said the November 2003 uprising that toppled the country’s former leader Eduard Shevardnadze had been an example for Ukraine, Iraq, Lebanon and other countries […]
Read MoreYou can thank Judith for this shocking example of US cultural insensitivity: “the almost unthinkable personification of everything the people we’re fighting hate: hot blond Christian white girls, not too smart and seductively dressed, ready to dispense justice and the American spirit while leading a sexy attack, thus confusing the enemy into masturbating instead of […]
Read MoreStephen K of God Save The Queen seems to think that his acquiring a life is some kind of excuse for retiring from ‘Blogging. Congratulations on getting married, yer bastard. Ah well, Scott’s back at The Daily Ablution, though he still hasn’t put a link to PooterGeek on his site, despite my (admittedly rude) email […]
Read MoreIf you want him to marry you before you have children and he won’t do it, bin him. If you don’t want to have children and she won’t take contraception seriously, bin her. An affair may be entered into lightly; parenthood should not. Whatever the tabloid arithmetic of relationships claims, there are some things more […]
Read MoreGeorge Szirtes has commented at PooterGeek a couple of times, not always to agree with me. I was going to write an enthusiastic review of his collection An English Apocalypse here, but I’ve lost the copy of it I got from Amazon only a fortnight ago. Just order a copy. What I’d read of it […]
Read MoreFurther to my iPod-bothering post about content freedom, read about Friday’s US Federal appeals court ruling against media industry requirements for built-in hardware anti-piracy technology and marvel at this rant today against the iPod’s DRM (Digital Rights Management) from Hilary Rosen, a woman who took the music industry dollar for years.
Read MoreI have an iRiver. It’s fugly. Even its name is an aesthetically displeasing admission that the sole reason for its existence is to divert market share from the mighty iPod family. You buy an iPod from a smiley, smart-casual white person in an authorized Mac dealership where the shelves are cleaner and brighter than those […]
Read MoreOne day I must buy my dad and Norm a couple of Test match tickets, drop them off at the entrance to Old Trafford, and leave them to spend the day swapping this kind of gripe. [I know you didn’t mention it dad, but yes, I did notice that I had used “licence” as a […]
Read MoreI knew that in Turkey Mein Kampf is a bestseller. I didn’t know that the theory of evolution was widely rejected there. Thanks to Mick Hartley and this in The Panda’s Thumb I have another reason to fear for civilization: “As a result of the BAV campaign and other efforts to denounce evolution, he adds, […]
Read MoreI have been banging on about the advantages of open source software for schools for years, giving talks, writing green ink letters to civil servants, even (thanks to Patricia Hewitt) meeting some senior mandarins. Sadly, most politicians’ and bureaucrats’ understanding of information technology barely extends to email. This last fact, incidentally, might have something to […]
Read MoreJeremy from Who Knew? emailed me with a Che-Guevarication of my younger self the other day. In return I shared with him one of the best subverted Ches I have seen recently, the Che-rie Blair, available to buy on a T-shirt from the Football365 shop.
Read MoreDimbleby has just called Galloway in the lead in Bethnal Green and Bow. I can’t bear to watch any more.
Read MoreIt’s looking grim already. I’m off to bed. Quote of the evening so far on the Beeb from David Dimbleby, describing Gordon Brown: “There he is arriving at his Kircaldy count with his wife Sarah, the man who came out at this election hand-in-hand with Tony Blair” If not for my fear of libel lawyers […]
Read MoreI am back from some more letterbox stuffing. The best house sign I read this evening was: “The velociraptors housed behind this door have only been trained to disembowel callers wearing blue rosettes“ Despite this kind of heartening sight, the activists here are nervy. Doing my rounds, I bumped into two—both County Council candidates—and I […]
Read MoreHart! I want to see you in my office. Now! Yes, Mr Counsell. Did you devote even a second’s thought to the construction of this ‘analogy’ of yours? “Giving more power to those parents who lack responsibility is like putting an alcoholic in charge of a bar.” No, Mr Counsell. I just thought it would […]
Read MoreUnder the headline “Mythical monsters”, the Lex column in today’s Financial Times deals with xenophobia the best way: not by appeal to warm-and-fuzzy multiculturalism, but by running the numbers. I liked it so much that I am typing this out from a photocopy of the article I made in the Campus library. The original piece […]
Read MoreJust over a week ago, I pointed out (again) that, amongst others, Bob Dylan was overrated. My observation provoked this response from a Professor Geras of Manchester, a long-time admirer of the recordings of Mr Dylan: Sock it to ’em, Damian. Next it’ll be that Bradman, Sobers and Warne are overrated as cricketers and J.S. […]
Read MoreI’m not sure, but I think that my grandad worked in the original Leyland Truck factory in the town of Leyland, Lancashire. [My dad will correct me soon if I’ve got that wrong.] Today, Tim Worstall links to a study of the long slow decline of the endlessly government-subsidised Rover/British Leyland/BMC vehicle manufacturing group. The […]
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