Author: mike

Every so often I get really annoyed by ritual male genital mutiliation, or male circumscision, and the unthinking way millions of otherwise vanilla parents in the US seem so avid to subject their infant...

Believe it, pal.

This made for interesting reading. The British Government in the early 1970s, faced with a virtual civil war in Ireland following the imposition of military rule, seriously examined two tactics which worked well for...

Two remote, low-lying Pacific Islands are believed to have been deluged by one of the strongest hurricanes on record. This is of course only a precursor, as global warming raises sea levels, kills coral...

This fine Scheer article sums up all that is currently grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, and unprecedented about the Bush Gang’s current excuse for a foreign policy.

“Singer” Not As Skanky As Commonly Supposed Well that’s a relief. It is easy indeed to do Onion-style headlines.

Back from Ohio… all I can say that lots of snow without any downhill slopes on which to snowboard seems pretty pointless to me. I ate a lot of cheese — it’s a lot...

Apparently, preggers teens get together to play foetus bingo, no less.

A good review of the new Scorsese movie here, noting that it glorifies the Irish immigrants’ “struggles” while eliding over their incredible racism and brutality as they ethnically cleansed black people from New York...

I’d always liked that theory about how Gervase and his diligent medieval monks in Canterbury saw the Moon crater Bruno being created, but it sadly it turned out to be hokum. However, now I...