Two quotes for a quiet weekend. The first is from a post about the 10:10 video over at The Anchoress and explains the righteous mentality perfectly : “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to...
X-Ray images to make you squirm
Pravda photonews has a set of rather cringe inducing X-Ray images involving cutlery, bullets and other metallic objects. The following being a good example of one which makes my skin crawl : Just imagining that gives me the heebie-jeebies! Go and have a look and see...
Eco loons inciting violence against deniers.
Produced by 10:10.org (look them up yourself as I refuse to link to these tossers) and now exploding (no pun intended) all over the internet after they pulled the official copy, this idiotic piece of propaganda shows just how low the tree huggers will sink when they...
A Gold Medal but was there a little cheating?
Looking through the photo news at Pravda, I came across the following photograph of the Russian Gold Medal winner of the Barcelona 20km walk : Speed Walking is rather a peculiar sport (in my opinion) with two simple rules : There are two rules that govern racewalking....
Long term drug abuse
Scientists have finally found pictorial proof that long term use of disco biscuits really is bad for you: Nice beard though.
Poetic Interlude
Whilst reading an article on Air Tax (yes, really) over at Pravda, I came across a reference to a poem by Edward Estlin Cummings (or more usually known as e e cummings) entitled When Serpents Bargain. Before the poem itself, some analysis as to its meaning : Mankind...
Well there’s a surprise
Remember this story a few months ago? : Tesco backs minimum price for alcohol sales Supermarket chain Tesco says it wants to see curbs on the sale of cheap alcohol during this Parliament. Tesco has welcomed a promise by the coalition government to ban below-cost sales...
FBI – Ten most wanted.
The FBI is celebrating the 60th anniversary of it's Ten Most wanted program : The Beginning On February 7, 1949, an article entitled FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitives Named appeared in The Washington Daily News. A United Press International reporter contacted the Federal...
Annoying the God Botherers
A blog article at the BBC seems to have put a few god botherers in a frothing tizzy with the following headline : Condom hole in the Papal vision? And, just to rub it in, there are two photos illustrating the piece : The article itself refers to a letter published in...
Is it April 1st?
From the BBC, this bizarre piece that had me checking to see if it was a recycled article from All Fools Day (emphasis mine) : Cadbury has removed the famous phrase "glass and a half" from its Dairy Milk bars after 80 years, having been told it contravenes European...