Author: mike

One of my oldest and best friends, Niall De Barra, is getting married. Hopefully, this datum will pop up on Google before the explosive vomiting refrerence…

So what do you do when you’ve paid surgeons to cut into your flesh and insert abiotic augmentations of dubious merit, and now you find that your unnaturally proportioned body is now unsuitable for...

Paul has a blog.

It is reality TV of sorts, a show called ”Terrorism in the Grip of Justice.” It features detainees confessing to various crimes … and has quickly become a nationwide hit. It is on every...

Iraqi special forces soldiers Ali Jabbar and Mohammed Ali insist they mete out justice fairly. They beat only the prisoners they know did something wrong, not the innocent ones. In March, when a rocket...

The city of Dover in Pennsylvania has now mandated that all biology teachers should teach intelligent design (Christian creationism in drag) as fact. I’ve never really understood why fundies are so eager to get...

On one wall is a “Star Trek” poster with investigators’ faces substituted for the Starship Enterprise crew. But even that alludes to a dark fact of their work: All but one of the [paedophile]...

Slate has a story about an apparently racist “Nogger Black” bar (black on the outside!) being sold in Sweden by a Unliver subsidiary. Which reminded me of “Golly Bars“, AKA Golliwog Bars. These were...

A report to the UN human rights commission in Geneva has concluded that Iraqi children were actually better off under Saddam Hussein than they are now … It now appears that, far from improving...

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