So the blog is back. I ran into a bandwidth overrun and was unwilling to pay the extortionate per/MB rates demanded by 1and1. I guess I will move more of the high-bandwidth videos, photos...

Child beauty pageants. A paedophile’s paradise. This is some seriously fucked-up shit.

We find little reason to believe that the appearance of power laws in the distribution of the severity of an event is the result of either reporting bias or changes in database management. This...

It was my birthday recently and Lisa’s pressie was a rather spiffy weighing scale that uses voltage and pulsed current to “scan” my bodyfat. Results vary quite a bit, but averaging it appears I...

No man likes to have pain shooting up the shaft of his penis … he goes into the bathroom, eases himself onto the toilet, places a length of industrial plastic pipe across his thighs,...

Polar bears are facing unprecedented environmental stress that will cause their numbers to plummet … the imposing white carnivores — the world’s largest bear — should now be classified as a “vulnerable” species based...

Religious Shiites do not have to legally enshrine Shariah, or Koranic law, to exercise their will. Enforcement of Islamic practices is done on the streets, in the shadows. “We’re trying to do it culturally...

So this young Iraqi, a wannabe suicide bomber “martyr”, was radicalised by the Fallujah schoolyard massacre in 2003, when US troops fired lived rounds into a protest march, killing 12 and wounding dozens. Now...

You know, something was nagging at me, some sense of dj vu reading about the Patrick Henry stepford wife school. And then it came to me, the old Soviet Union’s Party Schools (and definitely...

The kids in school who annoy her the most are the ones locked into their Bibles, like one who, when they were studying Nietzsche, kept saying, But God isnt dead! She said, What happens...