Entries from April 2006
Peter Recommends CXXVI
Bubblehead better watch out, or I’ll have him cornered on the secret Soviet underground submarine base links market! Oh yes!
Architecture Portal News - Soviet Underground Submarine Base
Until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Balaklava was one of the most secret towns in Russia. 10km south eas of Sevastopol on the [...]
Categories: War and Peace
It’s the Puritans v. Charles, All Over Again
Light up the bonfires…
Times2 - Savaged for my praise of our future Queen, by Damian Whitworth
A few weeks ago, after spending two weeks following the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall around the Middle East and India, I wrote a piece about the experience. I concluded that the Duchess was the Prince’s [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Durbin For the People
I heard audio of this just now on Rush as I was fiddling with my links, and I was all “But why didn’t he say…!”
FOXnews - Sen. Dick Durbin on Gas Price Politics
CAVUTO: Senator, do you know how much, out of curiosity, is built into a gallon of gasoline, the profits of the [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Replacing Bureaucracies
FOXnews - Senate Report Says FEMA Should Be Replaced
Hurricane Katrina turned FEMA into a “symbol of a bumbling bureaucracy” so far beyond repair that it should be scrapped, senators said Thursday. They called for creation of a new disaster relief agency as the next storm season looms on the horizon.
Hold on, I think [...]
Categories: Politics
I Crack the Whip
I’ve updated my links. The ones at the top of the list are the ones I regularly keep open all day (plus a couple interchangeable from the bottom of the list). The bottom of the list is listed alphabetically. I may check them every day, I may not. There were a [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Ah, But All the World Is a Stage
AFP - Actors could escape England’s smoking ban
Actors could escape the smoking ban due to come into force in England next year if lighting up is crucial to their performance, the Department of Health said.
And all the men and women players!
Categories: Politics
Stupid Windows Media Player, Irantian Totty, and Moderate Muslims
The Western Standard - If you can’t join ‘em, beat ‘em: Letting Muslims out of the melting pot is the western world’s recipe for disaster, by Mark Steyn
Dr Sultan is the lady who so impressively beat up the badly bearded bigot on Al Jazeera, which I couldn’t watch because Microsoft is a piece of sh*t. [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Peter Recommends CXXV
Not just hookers in those rolodexes: Heidi Fleiss hookers.
The Inquirer - Piracy worse than child pornography: Society’s new perspectives
Details of the upgraded [Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)], which has the blessing of the music and film industry and the Bush administration, are now coming to light. It appears that the DMCA will have [...]
Categories: Politics
The Rather Precipitous Sacred Islamic Duty to Fight the Crusading Doctors Without Borders
TigerHawk - Bin Laden changes the subject
Less than 2 1/2 years ago, al Qaeda broke the news to the Taliban that it was diverting resources to Iraq so as to humiliate the American “Crusaders.”… Al Qaeda drew a line in the sands of the Sunni Triangle, and the United States [...]
Categories: War and Peace
We’re Such Imperialist Bastards in the West, Aren’t We
Telegraph - The dragon in Africa
In Gleneagles last summer, the G8 countries agreed to double aid to the continent by 2010, which would mean at least $25 billion more per year; they also promised to promote democracy and improve terms of trade. That virtuous circle of increased assistance and better governance has been [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
When Sport Goes Political
I found the last article from the Canadian news last week at NRO. It appeared slightly differently in the National Post (”Kicking Israel Around”) without the little subheadings and an “earlier this month” rather than a “last week”.
NRO - Football Killing Fields: Outrage and disbelief as world soccer body condemns Israel, not Hamas. By [...]
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Angling For a Parade
Times2 - Can we have more pomp in royal circumstances? By Michael Gove
Perhaps I’m ageing prematurely, my features already set in the po-faced mask of a humourless crusty before I’m 40, but these efforts to make royal celebrations more accessible strike me as uncomfortably close to naff, and in some cases dangerously near [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Progress Is Possible (and Dancing!)
Telegraph - Pakistan waives 40-year ban on Bollywood films
Hey, they just bring a smile to your face.
Categories: War and Peace
The Madhouse of King George
Correction to Trump All Corrections
Now, I know a lot of you might be fond of some of the NYT corrections, but really, they pale in comparison…
Spectator - Lady Colin Campbell
In his “High Life” column of 4 December 2004 (accidentally reproduced on this website as part of his 11 December 2004 column) Taki wrote that the author Lady [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
