From the Currant. (Update: linky fixed)

This sounds like a paragraph from the early part of Heinlein’s The Day of the Jackpot; where goofy real newspaper reports turn out to be stranger than anything you could make up: An American student whose heart stopped after he deliberately electrocuted himself in a science class is suing his […]

At a debate made compulsory to attend under threat of fines (three spot checks to ensure that MEPs were listening keenly all the way through Barroso’s nonsense), Nigel Farage as usual made the only contribution worth listening to. We want a referendum. In or out. It’s our democratic right. Hat-tip […]

In these days of pussyfooting around the obvious; when even suggesting that the Pakistan cricket team are a bunch of cheating scumbags who should be banned forever from world cricket is apparently racist, it’s refreshing to be allowed to be candid once in a while. A third of Indians are […]

Thoroughly enjoyed this bit of in-your-face high handed buggeroffishness: An ex banker to the Queen has urged a public enquiry to close part of Chaucer’s Pilgrims Way that runs over his estate by telling inspectors they should remember they are not in Zimbabwe, Cuba or Scotland. Timothy Steel who is the […]

So what is this year’s trendy Guardian reader going to be buying the nephews for Christmas? Not toys with guns of course, because they foster masculinity and an attitude of self-reliance. No. How about Islamikawaii dolls? Note the rainbow of skin tones, and the absence of sharp edges and points. […]

Sounds of the England v Pakistan game are wafting through the window of the casa next door. This is the first time in no-idea-how-long that TheEye hasn’t bothered watching an international fixture; regardless of format. But this time why bother? Pakistan is playing, and there are rumours that the series […]

As Biased-BBC notes, if any terrorist group in the world wants an image makeover, Step One is to have the BBC on speed-dial. Typically, of course, their status seems to be ambiguous on our impartial State Broadcaster. From Wikipedia: The group is proscribed as a terrorist organization by the Spanish and French authorities, […]

From CBN News, a frightening report of what’s happening now on the streets of Paris. You’d think that with the current controversy over the Ground Zero Victory Mosque it wouldn’t be helpful to hear a suggestion that: Islamabad, Sep 2 (PTI) A Pakistani minister wants US President Barack Obama to offer […]

In November 2008, the Stockholm County Court overruled a decision by Sweden’s Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency (Kammarkollegiet) and actually allowed the registration of the Madonna of Orgasm church as an official religion. However it wasn’t to be. Yesterday the final polka in this dance of mind-numbing stupidity happened, and it didn’t […]