There are some broken “arguments” that stupid people deploy with a smug smile and a fold of the arms time and time again. Subject to even superficial analysis these supposedly debate-clinching gambits break. You know the sort of idiot offerings I’m talking about: “I’m not racist, but flooding this country with people of another culture […]
Read MoreOne thing that has always surprised me about PooterGeek over the years is how good-natured and reasonable most of the comments here have been, compared to many ‘Blogs. ‘Bloggers have linked here commenting specifically on this strange phenomenon. Admittedly, PooterGeek is not a forum for free speech. I have deleted thousands of spam comments, suppressed […]
Read MoreEvery sexual taste is served by the Web. Today I direct those turned on by women stranded next to their broken-down motor vehicles and tanned navels to online sources of gratification.
Read MorePooterGeek Snr sent me this today. Yours’ll fall out one day, grandad.
Read MoreOn Monday, in an email generously entitled “Disgusting”, Claire sent me a link to an Observer article making much of quotes from unnamed aid workers. These quotes implied that the United States was exaggerating the severity of the crisis in Darfur for political ends. In the same email she linked to this story from the […]
Read MoreHak sent me a link to this article this morning. I can’t think why. [UPDATE: According to my server logs, someone has been directed to PooterGeek having searched Irish Google for “Nigella Lawson in leather catsuit“. He or she has no idea how sorry I am that I am unable to help.]
Read MoreMy rant about the British and sex before I went away got a result: two hot scientist babes contacted me privately to offer me correction. First, Helena, a specialist working on pathogenic species for the Wellcome Trust, pointed out that, despite my checking it twice, I had misspelled “chlamydia”. Then Leasey, co-author on this Nature […]
Read MorePooterGeek’s Catholic Affairs correspondent texted me from the beatification ceremony in Rome yesterday. Apparently it was very hot.
Read MoreAt my sister’s I also took advantage of access to Sky Sports to watch Villa draw entertainingly away at Blackburn. These are two Premiership teams so ordinary their shirts are sponsored by firms you’ve never heard of, yet the speed and quality of the play was so much better than, say, ten years ago, that […]
Read MoreWith thanks to The Motley Fool, I recommend you check out “The God Frequently Asked Questions“.
Read MoreI also no longer buy either the London Review of Books or The Independent (daily or Sunday). I think I should go further and stop reading spare copies of either journal. Reviewing paperbacks in the broadsheets is occasionally delegated to some emptyheaded twentysomething trustafarian, but Laurence Phelan in the Sunday Independent should be given a […]
Read MoreOn trains this weekend I have been mostly reading other people’s newspapers. Turn to page 47 of someone else’s Saturday Guardian magazine and gasp at the advertisement for skin whitening cream illustrated by a fair-skinned mixed-race couple kissing.
Read MoreHarry “Chase Me Ladies” Hutton wants to be Britain’s top Nazi. So far, he is only fourth. PooterGeek possesses terrifyingly high levels of Google karma. My blessing is all that stands between him and the status he craves. Arise, Sir Harry, and welcome to your place at the head of the British National Party.
Read MoreFirst of all I hung out with Claire as she researched her new book, talking to various bright Cambridge dons about Europe and Britain and religion and immigration and anti-Semitism and the state of the World today. Her questions were so good and the resulting conversations were so long and wide-ranging that there is far […]
Read MoreThere will be some ‘Blog posts before the end of today, I promise. Come back this evening. I’d also like to say, in passing, that you’re all looking particularly gorgeous, even though it’s a Monday.
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