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…
US State department reads this site
Perhaps. Yesterday I mocked the Israeli Injustice Minister Haim Ramon for suggesting the world had given its permission for Israel’s campaign in Lebanon. Lo! Today the US State Department dismissed…
Australia pulls peacekeepers out of Lebanon — a told you so moment?
Yesterday in this space, I speculated that Israel’s apparently deliberate and definitely fatal targeting of UN personnel in Lebanon might have been designed to force their withdrawal. Today, Australia announced…
More bombing for peace
In another demonstration of iron restraint that BBC online reader Steve Gross (see below) would have to be proud of, Israeli armed forces have killed four UN personnel. The attack…