I keep hearing/reading the UK Overseas Development Minister, Hilary Benn, on the good progress in Iraq, for example half-an-hour ago on Radio 4’s Westminster Hour. So I googled, as you do, and he really, positively is the son of the man who took tea with that monster.
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26Mar04 — 5
One-Way Ticket
Two more signs that Kerry is winning: Today I read an article [subscription only, you oiks] in The Economist defending him against the increasingly desperate Republican accusations that he is a weathervane, always saying one thing or voting one way, before “flipping” around to an opposite position. Then I noticed that Bloomberg has him raising […]
Read More25Mar04 — 0
Of All The People
On the way to the Henley Regatta[, darling], Sonya showed me the front cover of Friday’s Evening Standard. It wasn’t until she stepped out the headline to me—“Gilligan: This Was A Just War“—that I parsed it correctly. My belief that Andrew Gilligan would oppose military action in Iraq was so strong that I couldn’t even […]
Read More25Mar04 — 0
M’Learned Friends
Yesterday I had to adjust some PooterGeek content from earlier in the week—both original text of mine and a coment by an external poster—to avoid misunderstanding and potential legal action respectively. I used (with ironic intent) language in my original ‘Blog entry that was probably too strong and that might have provoked the problem. These […]
Read More24Mar04 — 0
She Moves In Mysterious Ways
Have you ever Googled for God? Can you spot the odd picture out?
Read More24Mar04 — 0
Shock Development
Common-sense article by anti-war writer printed in The Guardian! A sample: “Just for the record, the Bali bomb, which killed 202 people, many of them Australian tourists, happened six months before the invasion of Iraq. The motive, as Clive James has said, had nothing to do with Iraq, much less Palestine. It was because the […]
Read More24Mar04 — 0
Western Reviewed
Open Range is an excellent film, well acted. It’s slow and has a couple of unfortunate structural flaws, but it features at least one awesome, crunchingly realistic gunfight. Robert Duvall is solid as usual, though, at an absolutely crucial moment, he blows it by focusing his gaze on a camera. However, it’s Costner’s movie and […]
Read More23Mar04 — 2
‘Allo ‘Allo?
Now not only has the British National Party got its own Jewish candidate, so has the French Front National. Madame Arrouas does point out in her defence that some of Le Pen’s best friends are Jewish. I remember when Britain’s (now defunct) National Front used to have a couple of black stooges who would speak […]
Read More23Mar04 — 1
Mixed Sex Prisoner
This story combines this week’s weird sex theme with the Chewbacca Defence approach to getting your client off the hook.
Read More23Mar04 — 0
Follow The Green Bunny
This guy has one of the funkiest sets of academic homepages I have ever seen. Check out his collection of optical illusions—many of them animated. (Clicking on a thumbnail on the right takes you to the corresponding illusion.) Would you believe I arrived at his site by clicking on an uncaptioned image of a large-breasted […]
Read More21Mar04 — 4
Too Weird For Words
Well, could you think of anything sensible to say about this? UPDATE: The Beeb has pulled its version of the story so the link above doesn’t work any more [thanks, Adam, for the alert]. You can try this one instead. UPDATE: The BBC version is now back.
Read More20Mar04 — 1
Priorities
Today the Stop the War Coalition will be marching in London against the “war”. I wonder how many of those caring sharing people will have even registered “the worst humanitarian situation in the world” (the words of the UN co-ordinator for Sudan).
Read More20Mar04 — 0
Peter Blatty meets Peter Rabbit
WARNING: Only follow the link if you have already seen the movie. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Exorcist performed in 30 seconds by cartoon bunnies.
Read More20Mar04 — 0
Browned Off
Not having a television, I missed the full horror of events on Budget day. (In The Times on Thursday, Anatole Kaletsky explained in rather more detail than I did why Gordon Brown has completely outflanked the Tories. [Since it’s the London Times there’s no free access for you dirty foreigners, but then you probably don’t […]
Read More20Mar04 — 0
One Day, Only The Balls Will Be White
First Tiger Woods; now Michelle Wie. She’s was born in Honolulu 14 years ago. She’s 6′ tall. She can hit a golfball 300yds. If she grows up without burning out she’s going to win everything in sight.
Read More20Mar04 — 1
Rising Again
It took nearly 40 years, the invention of the Internet and $30m of Mel Gibson’s money, but it looks like Jesus could be getting bigger than The Beatles—in more ways than one. (Of course, The Beatles don’t have the unfair advantage of being able to come back from the dead.)
Read More19Mar04 — 0
The Book Of The Film
Stop me if I’m getting boring about this, but… I’ve just come upon a banner ad showing the edge of a crown of thorns and bearing the message “You’ve seen the movie Now understand its meaning” . It leads to this page where the Catholic church takes full advantage of a golden marketing opportunity.
Read More19Mar04 — 0
How To Be Happy In Your Work
Don’t get a job; get a vocation.
Read More19Mar04 — 1
Youthful Rites Of Passage
Now Leasey is back at work to read this, I can congratulate her on passing her driving test and having two one-inch molars removed from her head without dying from the loss of blood. Well done!
Read More19Mar04 — 0
Liddle on Islamophobia
Rod Liddle continues to rant incoherently about the Hutton Inquiry that comprehensively battered the show he used to produce, Radio 4’s Today Programme. In tomorrow’s Spectator, he contributes a similarly incoherent, but stimulating, piece about the relationship between the nominally Christian West and Islam. His argument is roughly along these lines: Young Islam is radically […]
Read More19Mar04 — 0
Fixion
There’s a bit of a problem with that link to Bruce Anderson’s Spectator article about The Passion, “Christianity and Judaism Cannot Be Reconciled”, so I’ve inserted a couple of choice quotes in my original post about it. Also, some have suggested that this link might go to someone else’s illegal mirror of the Anderson piece. […]
Read More17Mar04 — 1
An Ally At Last
Writing an article titled ” Christianity and Judaism cannot be reconciled”, Bruce Anderson of The Spectator might be the only person on the planet who agrees with me (up to a point) about The Passion. Unlike me, he’s seen the film and recently read the Bible. (Unlike everyone else I’ve linked to on the matter, […]
Read More17Mar04 — 1
Budgeting
It’s Budget day in the UK. Gordon Brown has produced a boring budget with one absolutely brilliant strategic move: he promised to reduce the number of civil servants by 40 000 and move 20 000 of the remainder out of London to the provinces. As an employee of the Medical Research Council there’s every chance I might […]
Read More16Mar04 — 0
Still Lives
I like this and I like these too.
Read More15Mar04 — 8
They’ll Kill Us Anyway
Even the BBC man described the shift in the Spanish vote as being “a disturbing development” in European democracy this morning. Then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw put in a clumsy performance when he was interviewed about those same elections by John Humphrys. I wish Radio 4 had interviewed Mark Steyn instead. We’re on the plane. […]
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