Author: mike

Quite by accident I saw one of my all-time favourite war books namechecked: I plucked Neil Sheehan’s great book A Bright Shining Lie off the shelf the other night, remembering how it described the...

Okay, so Rory has pointed out that for the years 1962 and 1964-69, michael and lisa topped the top ten. I need to go lie down.

Those Teletubbies are just plain scary. Why not Slaughter A Teletubby Today?

What is it with Jacob and Emily? These two names dominate completely.

So it’s not just Lisa… It’s the Confessions of a Spoiler Whore. I could analyze this in terms of metatextual sites of resistance, and individual consumer authorship, and paradoxical carceral networks spontaneously organizing around...

The bouncers will be first against the wall when the revolution comes… Corruption is a central theme of Irish life and politics and human rights standards are below internationally acceptable levels … Ireland has...

So several months ago some media began reporting that US-backed Afghan ruler (and ex-Unocal oilman) Karzai was calling in US airstrikes on “opposition forces”. That quickly developed into either a fight between evil Taliban...

So just how hard would it be to develop an alternative energy infrastructure? It’s already difficult because the country that should be taking the lead here, the US, gets its oil specially subsidized from...

This is probably old news to some people, including Lisa who now has a morbid fascination for discovering junk TV plot spoilers months in advance, but there’s a samizdat Buffy pilot, with a different...

Contrary to widely held beliefs and longstanding taboos in America, first cousins can safely have children together, without a great risk of birth defects or genetic disease, scientists are reporting today. They say there...