Whilst Backword Dave is around, I should point out that earlier I wasn’t have a go—even indirectly—at him for being frivolous, but I was having a go at The Today Programme. He doesn’t need to explain himself; ‘Bloggers, by definition, should be able to write about anything they like. I could hardly have a go […]
Read MoreThe Susurrator nibbles at the shoelaces of titans as he vainly attempts to reduce us, the shining stars of the UK ‘Blogosphere to one-liners. Do you know who I am, child?! And apart from having shaved heads, Irish forenames, and the finely-sculpted bodies of gay icons, where is the resemblance between me and this person? […]
Read More[UPDATE: I’ve been told that the following collection of gags originally appeared in a letter to The Independent. This explains why I haven’t seen it before 😉 .] Steve K is back at God Save The Queen. He has some serious reflections on serious things he saw at the Edinburgh Festival. Meanwhile, here at PooterGeek, […]
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 MoreLove and Bent Spoons to Auriol on her engagement! [Auriol is a cousin of fellow ‘Bloggers Chris Brooke and Michael Brooke.]
Read MoreSquander Two has introduced me to The Policeman’s Blog. It’s the badger’s nadgers: brightly-written, entertaining accounts of life dealing with the criminal underclass. The Policeman’s struggles against people determined to take ruthless advantage of every kindness shown to them by the system remind me of the prison hospital tales of Theodore Dalrymple, aka Dr Anthony […]
Read MorePooterGeek has somehow acquired a reputation for taking the piss. It is also currently the sixth highest Google hit for Oliver Kamm, because, although I have publicly said more positive than negative things about his writings, I gave the man a bit of a going over once. Despite these facts I had nothing whatsoever to […]
Read MoreNorm beat me to ‘Blogging new ‘Blogger Eric the Unread’s brilliant attack on linguistic determinism this morning. I have looked over Eric’s first post and his third post and they both made me laugh, but I don’t want to read anything about The Village until I’ve seen the film, so, as far as I’m concerned, […]
Read MoreFirstly, for the benefit of Jon and other non-English readers, here‘s a definition of “oik” oik n. member of the lower classes of the UK—especially anyone not English—e.g. one who tends to pronounce an (i) sound as (oi) UK Secondly, Norm is both a professor of political thought and a very clear thinker—a dying breed. Today he demonstrates […]
Read MoreI should have got round to saying this sooner, but Mick Hartley’s ‘Blog has been even more excellent than usual lately. If you’d like to read some more serious stuff than usually appears around here have a browse.
Read MoreSomeone called “Tony” has been posting on Stephen Pollard‘s ‘Blog lately. By his own admission, he is a Leftie, recently turned to the Right by the various mad outpourings of the Left since 9/11. His own opinions also scare me somewhat. I enjoyed this exchange: “Tony”: “It’s reckoned that a stupid proportion (90%?) of crime […]
Read MoreIn a time of dying ‘Blogs, it’s good to see that “Dear John“, the ‘Blog of a twentysomething assistant and self-proclaimed “newsletter bitch” to a Labour MP, has returned after a long absence. The proprietor claims he has only one reader—another MP’s lackey—but how could I resist a ‘Blog that has had Geek and Kamm […]
Read MoreMichael Crichton is a doctor, a best-selling author, and unfairly good-looking. He also gets to make a fortune both writing science fiction horror novels and at the same time debunking science “fact” horror stories. Backword Dave calls the Drake Equation “crack cocaine”. It is. Crichton breathed its vapours deeply before he made this famous public […]
Read MoreAnthony “Black Triangle” Cox isn’t around any more to flag this, so I will.
Read MoreThere's only one thing scarier for a 'Blogger than being linked to by Slashdot or Instapundit, that's getting hits from the Carter-Ruck libel practice in your server logs, as I did yesterday. Mummy.
Read MoreYesterday I stumbled upon a 'Blog that was news to me, but I think I'll be watching from now on. According to its URL, “Language Log” is broadcasting from the University of Pennsylvania and seems to be staffed by linguistics profs from other top US universities. Stories that caught my eye include one on the […]
Read MoreOliver Kamm's latest post about Paul Foot is stonking. One sign of Kamm's return to (literally) forensic form is the proprietor's reponse to the “suicide commenting” from Chris Lightfoot that immediately follows the 'Blog entry I link to. I'm sure that, having regained my approval, Oliver can now rebuild his self-esteem and learn to love […]
Read MorePooterGeek? No one's called me that in a long time. Yeah. We know. How does it make you feel to hear it? It's another man's name. Listen, friend, if you want to ask me about enrolment do it now. My office hours are for students. You know that's not why I'm here. There's an election […]
Read MoreTrust me, I didn't set this up as some kind of parody. The Kerry and Kamm question here seems to have settled down into a reasonably good natured discussion about my being an irritated fan and the difficulty of inferring foreign policy intentions from campaign rhetoric. Over on the corresponding entry at Harry's Place, posters […]
Read MoreA popular, pro-war, Left-wing 'Blog called “Harry's Place” linked to PooterGeek this morning and the number of hits I'm getting is scary. It's lucky you're not here to download images or I'd be afraid of exceeding my bandwidth limit. Here is the follow-up to the 'Blog entry Harry pointed at (posted before Harry linked to […]
Read MoreI've both praised and mocked Tom Watson MP in my time, but he deserves recognition for his part in Labour's holding off half of the entire Liberal Democrat party machine in a by-election on the day after the Butler report, and he deserves congratulations for earning his spangly new award. Nice work.
Read MoreSo far, I've had five pieces of non-comment-box correspondence about the “Oliver Kamm Is Getting Sloppy” post. One, from a non-partisan US voter, might best be summed up as “ouch”. To which my answer is: if Oliver Kamm wants to go around beating up the idiots in school, he'll have to deal with it when […]
Read MoreUp late looking at a pending PooterGeek entry called “Should You Use Your Last Bullet To Puncture The Vat Containing The Cloned Brain Of Adolf Hitler's Mother?” and I just cannot bring myself to finish it. As my friend Bill didn't exactly point out, I've been 'Blogging rather too much lately. I am willing to […]
Read MoreOne of the advantages of the general frivolous scoffing around here is that I tend not to read whole trends into a single news story. Instead I use them as a jump-off point for a daft tangent of my own or further material for one of my running “jokes”. When such a story turns out […]
Read MoreBackword Dave has been annoyed about lots of things this week. And I think he may have been justified more than once. From a quick browse I noted: thing one: Tom Watson MP's lack of interest in politics thing two: human rights hypocrites thing three: The Sun newspaper, for which the adjective “hypocritical” is implied
Read MoreYesterday, while snuffling through her head cold, my friend Judith was complaining on the phone about the depressing choice facing her in the upcoming US presidential elections, even (especially) as an ex-pat American. We know that every last vote counts. Like a lot of us 'Bloggish types, she wants a leader who will push for […]
Read MoreThis one is mainly aimed at my American posse. Shouts out to you all, brothers and sisters. This piece in The Telegraph [probably requires free registration] begins as typical Sunday supplement filler, with some random musings on the significance of Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart's choosing to taking a “vacation” in the English countryside. Later, […]
Read MoreThis week, Anthony Cox mentioned another view of Saddam's big head-to-head and Mick Hartley put forward another theory about the England football team's. What do they have in common? Scissors, paper, and stone.
Read MoreSince I can't think of anything worth 'Blogging and Norm's post will guarantee PooterGeek hundreds of hits without my lifting a finger, here is a gratuitous picture of Nigella Lawson. Scott Burgess wasted energy writing something interesting to justify the one on his 'Blog this week. For balance, here's one of George Clooney. George and […]
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