The headline above is a lie, as is almost everything in an article in The Daily Mail, fisked here by the British Humanist Association.
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Jew Do You Think You Are?
25Jan09 – 12:44
Whenever someone implies that anti-Semitism isn’t racism, I point out that it’s one of the few examples of discrimination that really is racism (unlike, for example, the invented thoughtcrime “Islamophobia”1 ) because the Ashkenazi Jewish population is as close as you can get scientifically to the common (and deeply flawed) notion of what a “race” is.
Adam […]
Offensive Language
12Jan09 – 10:25
Harry Windsor is a “thug” for referring to another soldier by the nickname “Paki”, according to Mohammed Shafiq of the Ramadhan Foundation, quoted by the BBC. The BBC page links to the Website of that organisation, where Shafiq also claims that the government of Israel is like that of the Nazis.
The organization’s Chairman and Patron, Muhammad […]
How Can You Tell?
15Nov08 – 03:20
MySpace sex offender charged with running “fake” church. It’s lucky they caught him before “real” churches became associated with fraud and the sexual abuse of children.
Ooh, That’s A New One
12Nov08 – 12:50
Last year, Newsbiscuit ran a spoof “NEWSPAPERS RUN OUT OF ‘LORD LEVY IS JEWISH’ EUPHEMISMS” story [requires free registration] I was reminded of it when I read this from the latest statement by “the neo-Nazi North German Action Office”, as reported in the Wall Street Journal:
Inasmuch as it is a determined opponent of the western-plutocratic one-world […]
Paddy’s Wager
06Nov08 – 15:22
PADDY POWER OFFERS ODDS OF 4-1 THAT GOD EXISTS
A bookmaker has slashed its odds on proof being found of God’s existence to just 4-1.
Since opening its book just two months ago, punters hoping to have their faith rewarded have placed £5,000 with Paddy Power.
It began taking bets on the question that has plagued thinkers for centuries in September, […]
The Ultimate “Comment Is Free” Comment?
30Oct08 – 14:28
I don’t read or link to “Comment Is Free”, The Guardian’s cesspit of a group blog. Sadie saves you, me, and everybody from ever having to do so again by republishing a comment from the site that captures the spirit of the place. Under an article about rape, a reader writes:
“rape is never a woman’s fault”
That […]
A Client I Won’t Miss
16Oct08 – 16:29
[BY TELEPHONE]
CLIENT-I-WON’T-MISS: [giggling] …and I saw the pictures of that gay wedding on your Website.
POOTERGEEK: I shoot Gays, Catholics, Protestants, Humanists, Blacks, Whites, Jews…
CLIENT-I-WON’T-MISS: Well, I suppose you have to be prepared to work for anyone when you’re starting out.
Temper Temper / Pro Tempore
05Sep08 – 13:01
I keep meaning to write something about the response of the liberal Left media to the selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States—there are parallels with the way parts of the Right responded to Bill Clinton’s sexual incontinence—but, as I bring my fingers to the keys, I […]
Good Advice
08Jul08 – 10:54
These are both old (by blogging standards) and from the unlikeliest of sources, but I think they’re excellent:
Marketer Seth Godin on how to send email and
79-year-old Catholic priest Pat Connor on how to choose a spouse.
Raffish
26Jun08 – 10:35
Look at Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend Raffaelo Follieri’s hairdo and blue-jeans-and-blazer combo and tell me you’re surprised he is being questioned about an alleged large-scale credit card fraud.
I bet she’s wishing she’d returned my calls now.
Growing Up
20May08 – 09:25
[UPDATE: Edited to use the version of the body text that actually makes some sense with the originally posted title.]
I’m not that old, so I’m often puzzled by people who make historical pronouncements in ignorance of recent, relevant history, sometimes history that happened within their lifetimes but not mine. Of course, as Catholic dogma would have […]
Busy Tone
01Apr08 – 23:44
I’m so tired with work I’m starting to have hallucinations. I’d swear Richard Dawkins starts rapping 1 minute and 6 seconds into this YouTube video. (Christopher Hitchens throws shapes from 1:49 or thereabouts.) Go here for the torrent.
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Generation Gap
19Feb08 – 09:25
You probably didn’t know that the miniature-mace-shaped implement used by a priest in the Roman Catholic church to sprinkle holy water is called an “aspergill” or “aspergillum”. Despite our respective Catholic upbringings and useless fact collecting, neither did I or my dad.
But my dad (Jesuit schooling, degree in classics) could quote me the relevant introductory part […]
Can We Talk About Something Else Now?
01Feb08 – 10:41
Islam isn’t a race. Martin Amis isn’t a racist. This video is fun:
[via The Ambrosini Critique]
Bin Laden Still Trapped In Underground Bunker Behind Wall Of Rubble With Only Webcam, Grecian 2000, And “Comment Is Free” For Company
08Sep07 – 00:15
“Gradually restores natural looking color to gray hair”
It’s rambling, lying, conspiracist bollocks from a mass-murderer in a silly hat. He recommends Chomsky, the Kyoto Protocol, a universal flat tax, and an end to democracy. Someone give him a newspaper column. Whoops. Already been done.
I’m not quoting the costumed cock here. You can search the Web for […]
Entertainment Elsewhere
23Aug07 – 11:19
While I’m away, you might want to read Let’s Be Sensible’s “science” round-up and a couple of posts at Mr E’s place. This one is about a news story that highlights the absurdities of religious schools in England and Wales and this one is about the latest Conservative Party screw-up. When they do get rid of Cameron as […]
The Irreligious Policemen
14Aug07 – 22:43
Not having a telly, I didn’t catch the latest from Richard Dawkins, but when I visited his Website to look for clips, I saw this photo of him:
All I could think of was Michael Mann directing Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in an atheist actioner:
[A convertible Ferrari screams through downtown in slow motion, reflections of streetlights flowing across […]
Testing Polling
10Aug07 – 20:43
No one reads blogs on sunny weekends so this is possibly the worst time to try this out, but, being an evil neocon, I have decided to install Democracy 2.0.1 here. Now you can express your feelings about the Things That Matter.
Exercise your franchise, PooterGeekers:
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Who is the Messiah?
David Icke
David Shayler
Christopher Hitchens
Robert Powell
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Whaddaya Expect If You Name A TV Show After A Totalitarian Icon?
08Aug07 – 17:36
And now, a real horror video. Remember the media storms about racism on UK Big Brother? Keep them in mind as you check out Amber, a Jewish contestant on the US version, complaining, without any hint of irony, to the only black contestant on the show about “selfish, money-hungry” Jews. You can spot them […]
Pestiferous Rhetoric
07Aug07 – 10:29
R C Metcalf, PhD, knows the erotic power of a polysyllabic adverb and harnesses it to denounce the “diversionary tactics” of public unbelievers, and to, er, divert their attentions to those damned Muslims:
The new atheists are a tumescent bunch, unquestionably articulate, yet consummately misguided. Their incendiary rhetoric can’t help but stir the emotions of the majority […]
Dialectical Minimalism
14Jul07 – 12:17
Damian:
[T]he impression I get is that Norm is more forgiving of Eagleton’s errors of reasoning than he should be
Norm:
Damian leaves an impression about my viewpoints that I feel I have a right to comment on.
Damian:
I’d happily place a bet with Norm on which of the two of them will be considered worth reading in two hundred years’ time.
But […]
World Of Wonga
01Jul07 – 11:38
I caught up with wongaBlog this morning. I enjoyed this post about Jonathan Edwards’ reflections on his conversion from Christianity to atheism. It’s all downhill from here, Jonathan. Believers might be wrong, but believing often makes for happier and more successful people; and I enjoyed this marvellous rant about anti speed camera campaigners. My apologies […]
Philosophers: 2 — Scientists: 0
27Jun07 – 11:48
Last Friday I found myself stuck in a room in a Cambridge college waiting to do a photo job so I took Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations down from a shelf and, as an intellectual dwarf perched on Hindsight the Giant, sneered at it. Certain things he said appear absurd in the light of certain experimental […]
One-Man Gospel Choir
15Jun07 – 15:01
Go here [requires Flash video]. Skip the intro by clicking on “SKIP” in the bottom right-hand corner. Then click on “Video” and choose the first example: “Don Lewis demonstrates…”
Mentally Unstable Man Attempts To Board Popemobile
06Jun07 – 21:35
The 80-year-old Bavarian, who has suffered a number of strokes, believes himself to be God’s representative on Earth and participates daily in what he and his followers claim is a cannibalistic blood ritual, during which they eat the flesh of a centuries-dead carpenter and travelling quack doctor. Officers have returned him to the high-security accommodation […]
Lefties Sell Out
31May07 – 01:38
Thank you to everyone who spoke at, helped with, and attended the Euston Manifesto Conference yesterday. Every seat was taken and then some. It was a superb meeting with some of the most interesting and thoughtful lectures I’ve heard in years—and that includes the stuff I thought was wrong. One of the best things about […]
Unrelated
21May07 – 01:05
There’s a movie called The Ring about a video so frightening that anyone who watches it dies.
Here’s a link to a post at Drink-Soaked Trots.
Hamiltonian Flow
09Apr07 – 13:37
Tom Hamilton’s blogging has been particularly good lately, ranging from the Devil’s Chaplain to the Devil’s Kitchen. I recommend his excellent posts about Richard Dawkins—oldie and goodie—and his fine, if less taxing, fisking of the most superfluous blog in existence not written by someone called Brittany: hoisting out the middle wicket and scooping up an […]
Snapshots From My Glamorous Life
05Apr07 – 12:15
Last week, I noticed a registered Brighton & Hove taxi parked outside the Muslim community centre. Prominent on the dashboard was a hardback copy of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. A couple of days later I saw the car (and the book) again. This time the vehicle was being attended to by two of B&H’s […]
