Richard Cohen in The Washington Post, makes some important points about the US Justice Department's torture memos, bits of paper which are, in a way, more shocking than photos of piles of naked Iraqi prisoners. It's not a bad piece until Cohen resorts to the cliché “winning hearts and minds”, then your toes will clench […]
Read MoreI couldn't access PooterGeek, counsell.com etc. last night or this morning, and neither could a bunch of other people, I suspect—no email access either. There are about half-a-dozen things I want to post, but I'll be busy the rest of today, hence this lunchtime message. Come back later.
Read MoreWhile asking after my baby pics yesterday evening, my token Palestinian friend* Hind commented in her unique style, “We all think you love children, really. Why don't you have some?” I mumbled something about how ordering a baby from the Internet in the absence of at least adding a wife to my Amazon wishlist might […]
Read MoreAnti-war academic hair-splitters desperately using the separated fibres to lash together a defence for Amnesty International, mess with Eve Garrard at your peril. (I'm just amazed she has the patience to pick apart such flimsy constructions. She may be a respected scholar, but she'd probably also do a good job helping the elderly and confused […]
Read MoreIn the days before 'Bloggers, the traditional sad, no-lifes were birdwatchers. Here, one man (I'm just betting it's a man, but you're not going to bet against me, are you?) combines “twitching” and the Web to tell us about the Sparrows kleptoparasitising the Starlings.
Read MoreHere's one for the pharmacologically minded readers (Anthony “Black Triangle” Cox and little Leasey) about “pharmazooticals“. Next, testimony for those who really want to hear it from the intern's mouth—remember this story? Thirdly, one of the most detested (by the Right) papers of the liberal Left takes some well-deserved shots at the huge target that […]
Read MoreJudith tried to post a comment nominating Victor Davis Hanson as a rival to Mark Steyn for the Best Columnist Working In The English Language award, but the currently flaky PooterGeek site rejected her submission, so I'm posting it here. She recommended this piece by VDH. Funnily enough, “Backword Dave“, who links to me occasionally […]
Read MoreFurther to my flip' suggestion to the Arabians, Tim Blair quotes a supposed eye-witness report.
Read MoreAmericans and British give French the finger: pictures at eleven.
Read MoreRich, famous, bored? Why not get married again? Jennifer Lopez is 34 and she's on her third. I'm 36 and still wake up in a cold sweat from wedding nightmares—and I thought that was a Catholic thing. Her latest husband is on his second (the first was Miss Universe). You can get 3-1 that this […]
Read MoreWhat possesses someone to spend months building their own tank, climb in, armed to the teeth, smash up a couple of buildings with it, and then kill himself? At least no one else died. If only the poor guy had started a 'Blog, he could have worked all that anger out in a harmless, creative […]
Read MoreRonald Reagan was responsible for some spectacularly nasty things. He was also (as I have noted here before) hugely misrepresented by the media. Mark Steyn glosses over Reagan's nastiness, but makes clear that the real guilty, back in the days of my youth, were those who glossed over the evil of Reagan's, and our, enemies. […]
Read MoreEverything around here was down again last night and this morning: no PooterGeek, no counsell.com, no loveandbentspoons.com, no email, no nuffink. Apologies to people who might have been trying to contact me lately. It's not my fault—I pay the rent on time. I have a backlog of improvements planned: I want to start a PooterGeek […]
Read MoreGod Save The Queen is an excellent, thoughtful, new 'Blog. In contrast to PooterGeek, I doubt its author will ever storm out of the bathroom mid-shower to denounce something he's just heard on BBC Radio 4. The latest two posts there are insightful about the successful exercise of state power through history. Claire [the llama […]
Read MoreThe voices in my head break their temporary silence to tell me that, in one place, once a year, the giant lizards that really run the planet can get together, take off their human disguises, and slug down a few freshly-skinned bunny rabbits, away from the public eye.
Read MoreIn tomorrow's edition, Mark Steyn, The Spectator's token remaining clueful columnist, picks at the rotting corpse of the Saudi Arabian body politic [registration required, no artificial sweeteners, please give your full attention to the safety demonstration]. While I'm telling you what's in tomorrow's papers, Percussionist is going to win the Vodafone Derby tomorrow.
Read MoreNever go to the supermarket on an empty stomach. As your blood glucose falls, the bright colours and bleeping will disorient you, the myriad choices will overwhelm you, and, worst of all, you will hear the carbs calling, calling. You will leave with enough noodles to start your own Thai restaurant and three family packs […]
Read MoreOmigod. Someone has identified PooterGeek as the target of a Googlewhack: “two words—no quote marks with a single, solitary result”. And the magic combination is “fornicating Strepsil“. Enjoy it now while it lasts. (“Strepsil” is hardly a dictionary word, though, so it's a bit of a fiddle.)
Read MoreAt Castle Normenstein Eve Garrard dissects Amnesty's inanities rather more subtly than I did.
Read MoreWhether you agree with it or not, you can't deny that The Meatrix is a superb piece of animated propaganda for organic farming.
Read MoreI browse Football365, a magnet for poncey, middle-class types like me who watch football twice a year, as well as people who take the game seriously enough to talk crap about it. They have some new shirts for sale in their shop, in time for Euro 2004. This is a good one, and so's this.
Read MoreI have discovered from the referer logs that PooterGeek is now more famous on the Web than the inspiration for its name. Google for “Pooter” and this page is third; George and Weedon Grossmith's “hero” is fourth. The porn starts at six.
Read MoreSorry to resort to the same edition of Private Eye again, but I have to share this with my American friends. It's from a regular column in the magazine called “Luvvies” to which readers submit ridiculous quotes from actors. This week's was from Emmy Rossum, being interviewed in Vanity Fair: “We were doing this scene […]
Read MoreA few weeks back I attended a seminar by one of the creators of the World's first “knockout mouse”. Such a creature is exactly like others of its species except that a scientist has removed one or more genes from it, for the usual scientific reason: to see what happens. Back in the 80s, creating […]
Read MoreFollowing on from this morning's database fallover, PooterGeek's backend is back. Expect more drivel some time in the next 24 hours.
Read MoreThe biggest 'Blog in Britain is written by a prostitute. One of the biggest mainstream US news stories about 'Blogging broke when an intern sleeping with US government employees for money was outed by another 'Blogger. When it comes to Weblogs, the Anglo media have one thing on their minds and it isn't the potentially […]
Read MoreBeing cynical all the time can be really hard work. I’ve just come back from voting in our local elections. I started out well: I left the block and made some flip remark about "wishing I had an airgun" to my neighbour as we both stared up at the almost hysterically chirruping blackbird that always […]
Read MoreThe numbing predictability of it. Unfortunately I can't link to this, but the main political cartoon in today's Guardian has Bush with a missile-shaped "inhumane dog controller" in his hands and Blair as a lap-dog looking up at him with a missile-shaped bone in his mouth. Sharon is a fat hound wallowing in blood behind […]
Read MoreBlimey. Our Tone joins Dubya in threatening Iraq. Now I'm supposed to spout some clichés about Western imperialism and link to a cartoon depicting Blair and Bush waving their missile-shaped penises or something. Instead, I'll remind certain people that until the British “illegally” exercised their imperialist muscle in Sierra Leone (poorest country in the World, […]
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