It’s a sort of Where Are They Now? post, except the answer is she’s not dead just yet. Molly Norris, the US cartoonist who inspired the “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day” online protest has been publically placed on a hit list by Al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki. From the New York Daily News: A CHARISMATIC terror […]
To be filed under Whatever Next? or, more realistically, WTF? “We’ve waxed lyrical about botanical walls, green roofs and living treehouses on Inhabitat for years – is the next logical step a home made from animal tissue? Mitchell Joachim from Terreform thinks so.From the boundary-pushing team of archi-visionaries who brought us […]
Seen over at the Lakelander and thoroughly enjoyed…. He goes into entertaining detail about how the coat of arms was put together…and then redesigned as commenters weighed in with other ideas. Have a read….
Okay, what on Earth is going on here? It’s a plant grower which holds something called Chia. Appropriately enough for Obama it’s got a drip tray, but they seem to cut off his biggest fan-base by not selling to Mexico. No problem really…ship it to Arizona and the illegals can […]
Question Time tonight comes from Edinburgh, often known as the “Athens of the North” – because it is full of striking socialists and unemployed alcoholics. On the panel we have an interesting mix: a double-Coalition effort of Lord Forsyth and Scottish Secretary Michael Moore MP, Wee Dougie Alexander MP, Nicola […]
Great stuff from TheEndive: A spy swap agreement was finalized with Russia to day to deport 10 alleged Russian spies in trade for the recently exhumed body of Chess legend Bobby Fischer. “The Russians have been very cooperative,” said Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns, “They wanted to […]
No, really. If you are right of centre it’s the fault of a result of having air conditioning. Refrigerated cooling has been a major boon to the Republican Party. The advent of A.C. helped launch the massive Southern and Western population growth that’s transformed our electoral map in the last […]
The chart, put together by Calculated Risk, and dubbed by BusinessInsider as “The Scariest Job Chart Ever” continues to be, well, scary. It shows that in the United States there is no v-shaped ascent as with other jobs recoveries. The dotted line excludes hirings for the US Census and is […]
It appears that NONE of the top three missions that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been tasked with have anything to do with space. Witness see this interview with head of NASA, Charles Bolden on Al Jazeera (via Weasel Zippers and with their bold) “Bolden: I am here […]
Well that’s an unexpected turn-up for the books: it’s now legally okay to destroy the property of those who do business with Jews. Last time that was really popular was Kristallnacht in 1938 but hey, ho, that probably makes it retro fashion, eh? This extraordinary moment in modern British legal […]
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