Author: mike

Sometimes things turn out least the way you expect. No doubt Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, thought the WTC attack was heaven-sent. But now that the Bush administration seems to reckon on a Palestinian/Israeli...

Is there a word yet for someone with a fetish for Fascist News Babes? Salon is, of course, working on it.

You know, if I was Bin Laden I’d get out of Afghanistan and run quickly to a country with a strong policy on lawful extradition, such as Sweden or Switzerland. That way, Colin Powell...

There were only 9 million Iranians before World War II; today there are 57 million and their average age is 17. Radical Islam, with its extreme and black and white solutions, is a young...

The perils of getting Lebanese Maronite Christians to translate Islamic suicide letters…

a difficulty verging on autism when it came to international opinions that didn’t coincide with their own – a combination more appropriate to the inhabitants of an ethnic slum in the Balkans. A good...

A Philip Morris executive, hearing that smoking during pregnancy could affect the size of the baby, suggested that “some women would prefer having smaller babies”.

Lisa now tells me that in fact there are 10 people left in her building — which makes her impromptu stripping even more challenging!

Lisa tells me that everyone in her company has been laid off bar her and one other person. A few months ago they had 90 people. She was able to change her top in...

What is Osama bin Laden? He’s America’s family secret. He is the American president’s dark doppelg�nger. The savage twin of all that purports to be beautiful and civilised. He has been sculpted from the...