False prophet, real death
I’ve been chuckling about the antics of Family Radio’s Harold Camping and his recent prophecies of the end of the world. No longer. It seems that Camping’s delusions have been…
Denmark Marmite ban backlash feared
In a shock move, Denmark today outlawed Marmite. The BBC reports that “outraged” UK expatriates are planning “civil disobedience” in response. Psipook can exclusively reveal after an exhaustive undercover cup…
Electoral Freud (without the Freud)
Elections are very much in the ether at the moment. Japan has just got over it’s local elections, the UK has just had its own with a referendum on the…
Tiny Britain
David Cameron, the UK prime minister, is a racist. I do not use the term lightly because it’s a big deal calling someone a bigot, saying that they are irrational…
Libya bollocks
Violence never solves anything, that’s what I say, but I am finding it hard to object to the current international attack on Colonel Gaddhafi’s praetorian mob. Gaddhafi is what we…
First capitalisers
Even while the ground continues to shake, reactors are melting down and rescuers count the dead, men in suits seek to make political capital. Kyodo reports: LDP urges Kan to…
The bollocks people talk, part 27 million in an infinite series
Quoting from the Grauniad: Barack Obama pledged US assistance following what he called a potentially “catastrophic” disaster. What on earth is a potentially catastrophic disaster? What does this language mean?…
So that’s all right then
An Israeli government inquiry into it’s own behaviour has concluded that it did nothing wrong in killing nine peace protesters in the commando raid on a peace flotilla last year.…
Dolphin-killing fishermen worried that film presents them as dolphin-killing fishermen
Fishermen in Taiji, Japan, who kill dolphins for a living, are worried that a documentary film about killing dolphins might give the impression that they kill dolphins for a living.…
The long, the short and the straw
I have a plastic straw here with the words “Long straw for drinking” printed on its packaging. I was unaware you could drink straws. If I look around, I wonder…