So I got into it again regarding circumscision, and got called out on it. Basically, I think the caller was upset that the word I used to refer to circumscision wass “mutilation”. Here was...

Tianamen Square as the world remembers it, via Google International. Tianamen Square as the Chinese Government wants people to remember it, via Google China.

File under creepy. What if Anime were real and people were actually physically stylised like Japanese animation… I think we are getting closer…

I have found the solution to at least part of the energy crisis. Soon we shall be able to light our cities with burning candles stuck in the ears of the gullible and bamboozled....

Someone asked what were some good scifi-themed tunes to play: Space Invaders are Smoking Grass. Accept no substitutes. Welcome to the Discotheque. Cut the Midrange, Drop the Bass. Power Pill Pacman and Humanoid Must...

I thought at first that this *had* to be a joke but the author seems to be taking it seriously. Virtual reality cartoon “escort” reviews. In Second Life, a kind of Noddy Land for...

Many people lament Ireland’s “lost liquor”, poitin. Basically, distilled starch-derived alcohol. Why did it “disappear”? Where did it go? Was it a kind of forbidden nectar, or just another super strong distilled grain alcohol?...

Hundreds of Iraqis are being tortured to death or summarily executed every month in Baghdad alone by death squads working from the Ministry of the Interior, the United Nations’ outgoing human rights chief in...

The first loyalist march in Dublin since Partition had to be rerouted after thousands of republican protesters rioted in the centre of the Irish capital yesterday. OConnell Street, the birthplace of the 1916 rising,...

IRS exams found nearly three out of four churches, charities and other civic groups suspected of having violated restraints on political activity in the 2004 election actually did so … Among the prohibited activities,...