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This is just so silly:

The Times - Of course children don’t need fathers What women miss most is the man-sized salary, not the hunter-gatherer himself, by Carol Sarler

It might be very nice indeed for a child to have a dad around the house — provided, naturally, that he’s the proper kind: the devoted, sober, [...]

Categories: History

If you want to know how I’ve squandered my morning, click on the Tweet in the sidebar and check out the twitter. Meanwhile, I gotta get to Uwajimaya, Pikes Market, and a liquor store before lunch.

See, before I made the biggest mistake of my life so far by upgrading to Moveable Type 4.01, if [...]

Categories: Wildcard

Telegraph Blogs - John Howard champions Anglosphere

John Howard deserves better. The latest polls have him trailing by 14 points and facing the loss of his own constituency, whose demographics have been altered by immigration. Yet, on any objective measure, he has been one of the best Prime Ministers in Australian history. As The [...]

Categories: Politics

So, I have planned my menu, and it is:

• Tarragon chicken • Chestnut, prune, and pancetta stuffing • Sticky rice with Chinese sausage • Mashed celery root potatoes • Cranberry, shallot and dried-cherry compote • Squash pull-apart dinner rolls • Pumpkin pie • Cranberry pumpkin upside-down cake

And if Peter’s friend comes over again and he brings a veg or two, and some booze, that ought to be enough for three [...]

Categories: Food

This is sooo cool: Walk Score

Our little garret here gets a 88. Peter’s work gets a 98. My house in CA gets a 37. Peter’s house at home gets a 17 (hah!) but I dunno if where that is is public knowledge. I wonder how it’ll score Half’s mini-mart bicycling?

Update: Whilst waiting for this [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

The Times - Sushi and Stars

The news that Michelin has seen fit to award Tokyo a galaxy of stars was greeted with cries of “banzai!” by one of the eight new three-star chefs, and general Japanese jubilation. But although the Japanese were gracious enough to be pleased by the praise, it cannot have [...]

Categories: Food

First we had Anatole Kaletsky telling us we should base our economic policy on Donald Rumsfeld, now we have Libby Purves telling us we should base our everything on the Duke of Edinburgh. Talk about the vindication of the scorned.

The Times - Like the Duke, just get on with it Sixty years of marriage confer [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

We got to the third episode of the tenth season of Top Gear tonight (don’t pirate illegal video, kids!) and this. just. killed me.

It’s nearly ten minutes long but oh, god it’s worth it.

(Cameos (for those less familiar perhaps with the BBC’s personalities): John Humphreys, Fiona Bruce, and Dermot Murnaghan.)

But really, check out their conclusion [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

Uhh…

Opinion Journal - Mi Casa, Sue Casa Nancy Pelosi tries to force the Salvation Army to hire people who can’t speak English.

Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved to kill an amendment that would protect employers from federal lawsuits for requiring their workers to speak English. Among the employers targeted by such lawsuits: the [...]

Categories: Politics

This morning HalfEmpty sent in this, which I promptly forwarded to my mother:

Then this afternoon came this from Brett McS, which I don’t really get but it’s funny all the same:

And then, not submitted as such, but necessary to round out the three:

Wheat & Weeds - Raising Awareness About How Much Awareness Has Been Raised

Categories: Entertainment

BBC - ‘Shut up’ Chavez is ringtone hit

The king of Spain’s recent undiplomatic outburst at the Venezuelan president has become a ringtone hit across Spain. An estimated 500,000 people have downloaded the insult featuring the words “Why don’t you shut up?”, generating a reported 1.5m euros ($2m). [...]

Categories: Business & Media

The Times - Quiet Diplomacy It is time to revive Britain’s interest in the Commonwealth

The Queen arrives in Uganda on Wednesday to begin a two-day state visit to an African country that in many ways has been a beacon to the continent in showing how to overcome dictatorship and economic collapse. For although Yoweri [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

It’s not just invading countries he’s good at!

The Times - Rumsfeld logic serves as guide to direction of US economy. Anatole Kaletsky: Economic view

I admit, I didn’t read the whole thing. It gets a bit …dense.

Categories: People and Current Events

Yesterday we had our 60 funfacts (doesn’t 51 make you all melty?), then last night was released this picture from the dinner Charles threw them:

Today we’ve had the official service (I wonder what Dame Judi makes of always doing readings at these things):

Times Online - The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh attend diamond anniversary service

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Categories: People and Current Events

Okay, so now that we’ve had our laugh courtesy of the sense of humour of the headline writers at The Sunday Times in the previous post, we can have a good cry because this is really just astonishingly awful:

The Sunday Times - For us ze war is over by tea time, ja

THEY are [...]

Categories: War and Peace