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This is so true. It’s something I’ve long pondered.

Times Online - Aux armes, citoyens! (Oh, not again.) by Charles Bremner

Part of their mood is shared almost everywhere else in Europe: it springs from distaste for Brussels and a sense that the EU is out of their control. But France is far out [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

This is just hilarious. Highlights:

Times Online - Everybody needs bad neighbours, by Ben MacIntyre Sibling rivalries between Canada and the US, or Britain and France, have a value beyond entertaining insults

But now it has been claimed that Canada is both less boring and not nearly as nice as we had assumed. Behind its [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

FOXnews - London’s Big Ben Mysteriously Stops Ticking

LONDON — Big Ben, the landmark London clock renowned for its accuracy and chimes, stopped ticking for 90 minutes, an engineer said Saturday. There has been speculation a recent spell of hot weather may have been to blame. Temperatures in London reached 90 [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

One can always dream.

Chrenkoff - Al Zarqawi update

Thank you to all the readers who took on the opportunity to send their wishes to Iraq’s Most Wanted. The original post certainly generated the biggest number of comments in the history of this blog (258 so far), many of them hilarious, all of them heartfelt. [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Like Conservatives on a vindictive, humorous bent.

So I spent a day away from my computer and I missed this:

Chrenkoff - Get well, go to hell, al-Zarqawi

70 messages of support in a few hours? C’mon people - we can do better than that. Forget “Get well, al-Zarqawi”, it’s time for the launch of the [...]

Categories: War and Peace

A good point made:

Opinion Journal - Best of the Web Today: This Stinks

“A former top-ranked radio host, who claims she was sickened by a colleague’s use of a perfume described as ‘romantic, sensual, emotional,’ won $10.6 million in a federal court lawsuit Monday,” the Detroit News reports… One morning some [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

This is hilarious.

Telegraph 26/05/05 - I won’t pay to be abused by the BBC, By Boris Johnson

I want to save myself the price of a stamp or a phone call today by writing an open letter to Mr Richard Goodbody, the regional manager of the Swindon enforcement division of the TV Licensing Authority. [...]

Categories: Business & Media

Times Online - Republican crisis biggest in US since Second World War. Well, almost, by Gerard Baker

WE NO LONGER live in the real world. We have all been forced to inhabit the semi-fictional world of the headline writer, in which every incremental nudge forward in humanity’s progress is Epoch-Making, in which the banal [...]

Categories: Politics

FOXnews - Tom DeLay Irate Over NBC’s Judgment

In the season finale Wednesday, the detectives suspect an imprisoned white supremacist is behind the shootings of a judge’s family, but their investigation widens when an appellate judge is later murdered. “Looks like the same shooters. CSU found the slug in a post, [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Hot today, eh?

Categories: Science and Nature

Time for pilfering the photos and design schemes of the contestants at the Chelsea Flower Show. Muah ha ha. When I have a real house, I’ll never need a landscaper! Ah hah hah hah!

Update:

Cute! It’s the Landscape Management Services & Home Group Roald Dahl Foundation Chocolate Garden

Not necessarily my favourite (it’s [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

I swear half my blogs still have talk of the new Star Wars entries today, and it’s been a week. And since this is still a filibuster-free zone, I’m a little at a loss.

The only thing worth commenting on is this, but I’m not exactly qualified to comment on military matters, so I usually [...]

Categories: War and Peace

I’m not good at shameless self promotion (causing in large part my starving-artist status) but I can’t help a little happy smugness when I direct my readers to a certain very interesting Christopher Hitchens column a whole three days earlier than the famous James Lileks. Yes, he has all the money, glory, and radio-talk-show [...]

Categories: Wildcard

Keith in Mountain View (my home town once removed) posted this in the comments of First Lady Travels to Egypt, Advocates Equal Rights For All Sexes, Religions, and Big Fuzzy Green Creatures, with the picture of Laura Bush meeting Nimnim. It cracked me up this morning when I read it and it’s been cracking [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Telegraph - Eurovision harmony dies a death, By Mark Steyn

The Eurovision Song Contest is not always a reliable guide to the broader political currents coursing through the Continent. One recalls the 1990 finals in Zagreb, when the charming hostess, Helga Vlahovic, presented her own fair country as the perfect Eurometaphor: “Yugoslavia is very [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs