Suw Charman describes Asimo the Honda robot’s gait as “cute”. Asimo in motion looks to me a lot like a bloke in astronaut fancy dress, trying to sneak around shared accommodation in the small hours without waking up any of his co-habitants. [Requires Flash player]
Read MoreThe Independent Radio News report on 96.9 Chiltern FM at four o’clock: “11 Britons are among the dead.” [Recording of northern Irish bloke recounting his experience] “—journalist Blahdy Blah on the earthquake in south Asia. In [Thailand] alone, eight Britons died. Others are on their way home to emotional reunions.” Don’t the media just love […]
Read MoreChris The Stoat linked to The Brick Testament yesterday, showing the image of the Lego shepherds gathering. He didn’t link to the next frame of Luke, showing them drawing a bead on a messenger of the Lord with a ground-to-air missile launcher. As the angel is joined by reinforcements, the militants run for cover.
Read MoreAs you probably know if you are a regular, I live off the Mill Road, Cambridge’s ethnic strip. I do so not out of solidarity with the city’s immigrant population nor as some kind of fashion statement. I would much rather be in one of the areas where the rich white people live, but I […]
Read MoreYes, it’s bad there, but what about North Korea? Yes, he’s an evil dictator, but the Americans will be even worse. Yes, they’ll overthrow him, but what about the humanitarian disaster that will inevitably follow? Yes, democracy’s all very well in theory, but those people aren’t ready for it yet. Yes, they chopped off his […]
Read MoreI long for the day when there is no longer any hiding place for the bastards—instead of a vast system of “international” “law” to shelter their fiefdoms from reason, liberty, mercy, fairness, and universal suffrage. In the meantime, let’s raise a glass to the continued imprisonment of these guys [do you think their “snacks” include […]
Read MoreI had dinner this evening with a nice Filipina post-doc yeast geneticist who, like all of her countrywomen when newly arrived in a location beyond their islands, was carrying something on behalf of another Filipina, in this case a gift from casualsavant for me. Now that I have a copy of The Metrosexual Guide To […]
Read MoreEric The Unread has taken Backword Dave‘s Jedi morality/foreign policy post and run with it. If you are familiar with the Star Wars films you’ll have a good laugh.
Read MoreDo you think any of these Arab writers stand a chance of getting a regular gig at The Guardian? [Thanks to Judith.]
Read MoreIf this is real it’s amazing. UPDATE: The site I linked to has free registration, but you could have a browse through these to see if you can find a simple click-through link.
Read MoreA Jerry Bruckheimer Production 45 MINUTES starring Aaron Eckhart as George W Bush and Don Cheadle as Tony Blair [“I’m telling you, Steve, the sidekick has gotta to be black.”] [Urban skyline. Dusk.] TOUGH STREETS. NEED TOUGH COPS. DETECTIVE GEORGE “DUBYA” BUSH—HE’S WRESTLED WITH DRINK. HE’S WRESTLED WITH DRUGS. HE’S WRESTLED WITH THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. […]
Read MoreI meant to say thank you to Nicholas and Hind for dinner yesterday. In fact it was my discovering that Adam, the latest addition to their family, looks exactly like Nicholas, but smaller and a bit more Arab, that made me post about the Karzai photo. Thanks for the “Death to the Zionist Infidels” shopping […]
Read MoreA frequent correspondent points me to this story in which Jean-Claude Juncker, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, takes exception to the Prime Minister of Iraq describing non-participants in the liberation of his country as “spectator” states. My correspondent suggests that, rather than apologize to Juncker, Allawi should have told the esteemed European leader to “go […]
Read MoreVia the BBC I notice disturbing evidence of another political dynasty in the making: Karzai’s Mini Me
Read MoreLive from next month, more of “Pooter’s Futures“: The Middle East The body of one of the militants believed to have been responsible for the bombing of the Hilton hotel in Taba on Egypt’s border with Israel has been washed up on a bank of the river Nile near the Egyptian town of Aswan. When […]
Read MoreApparently “Sudan’s Darfur” is “‘safer than Iraq’“. I’d been wondering where those millions of Iraqi refugees had gone to. I think Sudan’s Foreign Minister, Mustafa Osman Ismael, makes everything clear to Europeans when he says that “the international community should leave the complex ethnic politics of Darfur alone” because… “This is an African problem—it needs […]
Read MoreAfter last week’s frenzy, ‘Blogging is going to be thin this week because I have a lot on. Congratulations to PooterGeekers on their excellent work with Britney and to Oliver Kamm on making a better case for Bush (this time😉 and on re-making the best case for the second war on Saddam, namely that the […]
Read MoreSUE FROM BBC LOCAL RADIO: I’m standing in the grounds of an ordinary central Cambridge apartment block where local resident Damian Counsell has found himself at the centre of a controversy following his construction of a sculpture he has called, somewhat provocatively even he must admit, “You Bet Your Sweet Ass It Was In My […]
Read More“From the crowds that hailed New Labour in 1997 to the despair of Kenneth Bigley is a vast emotional distance.” —editorial in The Independent, 09Oct04 This week, the same Tony Blair who had promised “Decapitation, decapitation, decapitation” at the 2000 Labour Party conference finally made good on his chilling promise. Standing before an endlessly looping […]
Read MoreThe other shocking Today Programme interview this morning was with the normally gelatinous Charles Kennedy, who somehow managed to take a harder line than the BBC on the apparent release of the scientific head of Iraq’s biological weapons programme in an effort to placate murdering terrorists. He even used the words “murder” and “terrorism”. Perhaps […]
Read MoreAdam spotted this one.
Read MoreIt seems that the BBC were about to get the bigger story without realising it. If it is the same vehicle that I said that they were reporting on, then the Iraqis dancing around it yesterday are now dead. I’m puzzled that they don’t seem to have followed it up and I’m irritated that I […]
Read MoreWhile we’re on the subject of ARMAGEDDON, Harry Hutton of Chase Me Ladies also feels that The End Is Nigh, but for a different reason. “Nuclear test”? Pah! Kim Jong-il’s hair, slathered in an experimental and barely stable obsidium dye, has finally exploded. UPDATE: A man whose hair has already exploded backs me up.
Read MoreThe BBC is too busy whittering on about Iraqis dancing around a burned-out US vehicle to have noticed that a suicide bomber has blown himself up trying to smash into the Abu Ghraib prison. You’ve got to give some credit for ironic humour to someone who fails to break into a prison to kill people […]
Read More88 percent of the population of Indonesia is Muslim. If you can’t kill a Jew or a Christian or an atheist, you have to make do. “Bloodied victims lay sprawled and screaming in front of the embassy, as dazed survivors desperately tried to locate colleagues and missing family members. A severed leg, human scalp and […]
Read MoreNorman Geras: he supports Manchester United in domestic football, supports Australia in test cricket, and supports military intervention in Iraq; yet lots of people like him. It’s probably a Jedi mind trick.
Read MoreAnd Norm thinks being linked to by Instapundit is scary: “Starting today, if a Chinese porn site is ‘clicked’ more than 250,000 times, its owners could be jailed for life.”
Read MoreMister: “I fear I must leave you now, my love, and do what I can to help my newly-liberated countrymen and women.” Missus: “You bastard.”
Read MoreVia Sgt. Missick, A Line In The Sand, I came to this short, fascinating, and hawkish piece by a military writer about the continuing fighting in Iraq. The author, Richard Hart Sinnreich, endorses the outlook ascribed to Ulysses S. Grant by one of his biographers: “He had no liking at all for the cruel weight […]
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