A nobody called Mary Tomer has written an excruciating book claiming that Michelle Obama is the fashion guru of the sentient Universe. Of the 120 photographs used, this oddly isn’t one of them Philip Sherwell has “reviewed” it in the Telegraph – if by ‘reviewed’ you mean slobbering all over the author and […]

From the Department of Good Grief What Next we hear about a prisoner serving time in Sweden’s Gävle jail who has received a pay out of 18,300 kronor ($2,700/£1,650) in compensation after injuring his little finger during a game of table tennis. The incident happened in November 2007 when the 46-year-old inmate whacked the […]

Daddy, daddy, I know what I want for Chanukah!What, my Jewish son?Two warships!Do you know how much they cost?Nothing! I want them for freeeeeee! Israel is hoping to order two modern German-made warships without paying for them, daily Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Friday. Sources within the German government told […]

It was inevitable, in hindsight. Not quite the new Downfall but some entertaining dubbing…enjoy…

From the Hootsmon: An artist plotting his own “field of dreams” has won a £460,000 grant – to create a full-size football pitch in a secluded part of a Scottish woodland.Craig Coulthard, 28, has been selected to create one of 12 artworks across the UK to help celebrate the staging […]

Spotted over at Dizzy‘s place and too good not to pass on. The Twatter site is here.

We all have our tastes in music and usually they are quite easily seperated into two distinct categories – stuff I like and everything else. A musician is going to have to have a reasonably thick skin to absorb the blow that not everyone thinks he is perfection embodied. But […]

Last month AllSeeingEye ran with a story from the Croatian Times about a blogger who was sentenced for comments left on his blog by someone else. A co-conspirator of this blog who is well versed in matters legal gave some excellent advice both in person and in the comments on […]

The Synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden has come down in favour of church weddings for homosexuals in a vote held on Thursday morning. Full article in TheLocal. The decision, which is based on a proposal from the church’s governing board, means that the Church of Sweden will conduct […]

Will Lassie be the next thing on the Climate Alarmists hit list? The eco-pawprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 kilometres a year, researchers have found. Victoria University professors Brenda and Robert Vale, architects who specialise in sustainable living, say pet owners […]