The Lord God Almighty tells George Bush to ‘fuck off’
Today, the Lord God Almighty, a supreme being, told George W Bush to ‘fuck off’. The Good Lord added, ‘you are a lying, dissembling little plonker, and I hope you…
Does Big Brother watch NHK?
Does Japan’s state TV station suffer state censorship? This is the question that has set Japan’s blogosphere buzzing since the Ishikawa earthquake on March 25. Nagaijin has alerted me to…
Brazil is now
There was an interesting piece in the online Guardian recently which explained how in Britain victims of wrongful imprisonment are charged for B&B for the amount of time they spent…
A cure for cancer? Not if there’s no profit in it
A chemical called dichloroacetate (DCA) has proved effective in lab tests of killing most kinds of cancer dead. DCA is cheap, easy to produce and has no serious side effects.If…
Drug crisis hits UK
British politics was thrown into turmoil today when it emerged that absolutely no one in the country has never taken drugs. The revelation rules out the entire population from leading…
McDonald’s: no cheese
Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Hard times indeed at the world’s favourite burger emporium: McDonald’s. My wife today bringing the kids home from baseball practice stopped at the Heguri,…
Appeasements in a pod
Donald Rumsfeld recently compared critics of the Iraq war with the appeasers of Hitler’s Germany (original story apparently now taken down). Terrible thing, appeasement, but is it better or worse…
Not an unprecedented pile of bollocks
The news is full of the foiled airliner attack plot in the UK. The possible attack has as usual been followed up by an all-out assault on common sense and…
Hamburger madrasas
A friend sends me today a link to David Byrne’s blog. Byrne’s latest entry is about ultra-Christian, ultra-right wing community schools that conflate the Bible with a political agenda. Are…
Peace in our time with bombs
Three weeks into the war in the Lebanon and the UN has finally agreed, after some intense wrangling about the specifics, to prevaricate some more. The process in the UN…