Author: mike

Here’s a nice short piece on the likely aftermath of a US invasion of Iraq: civil war, mass slaughter and rape, and probably a pro-Iranian Iraqi regime.

Apparently, kicking out the moneylenders is just so passe. These days, Jesus will be taking on the burger flippers and assorted Agents Of Mammon who’ve infested his megaChurch temples.

So I joined Netflix, one of the first of the DVD rental mailer companies, a long time ago and like it a lot. I was interested, then, to read a rough calculation that, in...

So we finally moved the bulk of our stuff this weekend, thanks to superlative assistance from a small army of people who turned up and helped out. We have established our beach-head in the...

So apparently Giant Squids are taking over the planet. Unwittingly, us human dupes have been warming the oceans and killing off whales so successfully that now Architeuthis Dux is breeding out of control. In...

I note that a new transcaucasus pipeline project runs through Georgia. How convenient it is, then, that US troops deployed there several months ago. Regional commentators are already flagging an increasing US involvement in...

It was always a dodgy idea for the unilateralists in the Bush Gang: ask the UN to come down heavy on Iraq. I get the sense they were relying on Saddam to be as...

Checked the logs this morning and last night someone found my site by entering this weird phrase into Google: jesus can’t give cleanup child abuse. Your guess is as good as mine…

God I am so tired from packing for the big move this weekend. Why are all my books still paper? WHy haven’t they been Napsterized yet. On the plus side, I did finish digitising...

So some conservative website linked directly to my Chelsea Clinton Goes Goth thingy. This kind of deep linking really bugs me, especially when there are thousands of hits with no possibility of follow on...