Senate Majority Leader Harry Reed’s recent comment that President Obama might be electable because he’s “light-skinned” and doesn’t “have a negro dialect” is not an isolated event. In fact it’s pretty much typical of thinking across much of the self-styled enlightened (oops) Left in the US. In fact, there are […]
It’s marvellous. One-Term Barry’s so-called Stimulus package has left a well documented trail of corruption and wasted cash in its wake, so it was only a matter of time before some of the discredited Climategate scientists got in on the money-splurge. In the end it turns out that one of […]
In news designed purely to get traditionalists outraged and teenaged children giggling, we read that: “CANADA’S second-oldest magazine, The Beaver, is changing its name after 90 years because the title is too often censored by online porn filters, preventing it from reaching new online readers. The Winnipeg-based magazine was launched […]
Straight from the You Couldn’t Make This Stuff Up Department comes this fantastic story: The floor of a Weight Watchers clinic in Växjö in south central Sweden collapsed on Wednesday night beneath a group of about 20 participants in the weight-loss programme. The Weight Watchers participants had gathered in the […]
With 2010 now not just through the front door but making itself fully comfortable in your favourite armchair and smoking your cigars, we must surely be due a return to the weekly joy that is Question Time. And indeed we are, for Question Time tomorrow comes from Finchley and the […]
An introduction for anyone who isn’t too familiar with the dark underbelly of US politics – James Carville is an American political consultant, commentator, actor, attorney, ex-Clinton strategist, and prominent lefty pundit. Brilliant, James, you’ve talked some rubbish in your time but behold your future: every new book of political quotes will always contain: “Let […]
If, for some strange underlying masochistic reason you are deliberately lookng for something which would make you want to lob bricks at the screen then TheEye can oblige. This is a nauseating television clip which perfectly illustrates why lawyers are up there with politicians when the man in the street wonders what to do […]
With apologies to the ever-splendid Croydonian, who has the well deserved monopoly on all bloggy things North Korean, here we have Kim Jong Il’s reaction to a Hoon and Hewitt failed putsch out there….
As we’ve always suspected, what makes up a Weapon of Mass Destruction (which we are continually being told by the BBC weren’t found in Iraq despite the discovery of saarin, mustard gas, and other chemical weapons, and various prison sentences for those who used them in Iraq or those who […]
Headline from (where else) The Guardian: McDonald’s seeks to cut cows’ methane emissionsThree-year study by burger giant aims to reduce pollution from flatulent livestock So now methane, a natural gas, is a pollutant? Pollutants normally bring to mind pesticides, heavy metals and Polly Toynbee pronouncements rather than what happens after […]
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