Treehugging, possibly lycanthropic web-2.0 campaigners have launched a petition intended to “stop NASA from bombing the Moon!”. The organisers of the petition claim that the space agency is turning unspoiled lunar wilderness into a “firing range” for space weapons, and that US “imperialists” intend to colonise the moon “without regard […]
Thanks to ‘banned’ in the Comments thread on the Newsnight post below for posting a link to this YouTube clip – that interview but with subtitles for the hard of understanding. Visit him here; highly recommended blogging.
Another week, another Question Time. This time Dimblebore transports us to Manchester (currently hosting the Conservative Party Conference and where it’s raining at the moment…..unlike McDoom’s mob let’s hope they fixed the roof whilst the sun was shining, eh?) Unlike last week where the panel was scarily balanced, this week looks […]
It was a classic bout. The fight of the decade, the clash of the titans: Johnson -vs- Paxman, duking it out for the World Heavyweight Title in Manchester. It didn’t even get to the judges. Paxman jabbed and weaved but The Hair From Henley had the measure of his opponent […]
Cross-posted from All Seeing Eye co-conspirator G.O.T.’s haunt. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Sometimes these Downfall clips can get a bit much, but this one is rather good. Hitler finds out that Chicago won’t be hosting the Olympics.
US-based toy retailer Toys”R”Us has been reprimanded for gender discrimination following a complaint filed by a group of Swedish sixth graders about the store’s 2008 Christmas catalogue. Last winter, a sixth grade class at Gustavslund school in Växjö in south central Sweden reported Toys”R”Us to the Reklamombudsmannen (Ro), a self-regulatory […]
If you were forced – absolutely forced – to list your top 10 examples of how, at the fag end of a dying Government each and every authoritarian wannabe is trying to jump on the Jolly Bandwagon of Stupidity as it heads towards the cliff, then this would be a […]
I was listening to the Andrew Marr show on the BBC this morning, by way of light entertainment. I was trying to guess how many lines of attack Marr would open up on Conservative leader David Cameron and was not in the least surprised at the endless verbal assaults that […]
Originally I thought that I would probably be better off doing this post over at my usual place but then I thought, what the heck, let’s see if I can manage it here without reverting to type. This latest example of Gordon Brown’s prudence doesn’t appear to have come from […]
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