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Still one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen printed was Gerard Baker, a little over a year ago:

Now to those who survived the Blitz and Barbarossa, the news that today’s Luftwaffe will not fly at night in potentially hostile environments might be regarded as a welcome historical development.

Same paper, different journalist, best [...]

Categories: War and Peace

The Times - A secret scandal and dirty tricks: the campaign mud starts to fly

…agents of Mrs Clinton were quoted as saying that they had obtained unspecified “scandalous information” about Mr Obama. His campaign responded furiously over the weekend, challenging Mrs Clinton either to make the information public “or concede [...]

Categories: Politics

As much as I love the BBC, sometimes their idiocy, blindness, insularity just staggers me. With alllllll the problems we’ve been through so many times (see here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

So at about 10 o’clock this morning Peter decided we should go down the hill to see a movie at 11. At 10:15 he decided there wasn’t time. At 10:23 he decided we could just make it. So we powered down the hill at top speed and saw No Country For Old Men. [...]

Categories: Entertainment

BBC - Sixty facts about a royal marriage

Buckingham Palace has revealed 60 facts to mark the diamond wedding anniversary of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.

Joy!

Categories: People and Current Events

Honestly, I almost forgot again.

So:

ninme has officially existed for three whole years. To celebrate again, some stats (I used to put last year’s in brackets but honestly, I can’t remember how I added the first set up, so to avoid confusion I’m ditching those):

Unique visitors: 147,248 Visits: 421,451 Pages: 1,443,090 Hits: 1,982,043 Visits/visitor: 2.86 Pages/visitor: 9.80 Hits/visit: 4.7 Bandwidth: 35.45

Backup .txt [...]

Categories: Wildcard

Literally.

Categories: Sports and Leisure

He found the LOLCat Bible (aka Teh Holiez Bibul).

I like Psalm 23.

If you’re inclined to take against sacrilege, I wouldn’t do too much digging. But Psalm 23 is funny.

Categories: Catblogging

So you can just see Tiger Woods watching it, muttering to himself “Well sure, when he’s three, but I was golfing with Bob Hope when I was two…” and then he gets to the halfway point and says “Oh come on!”

Categories: Sports and Leisure

First, remember when:

remember when the cherry blossoms bloomed two weeks early in Japan and everyone fell over themselves in terror of our coming doom? Daily Mail - The amazing pictures that show autumn has come early

Now, remember when I took the picture of the firemen outside last year?

Now, granted that [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

So this is Damian Thompson, who writes the Holy Smoke blog for the Telegraph Blogs, and keeps us frequently updated on all the drama:

Telegraph - Pope gets radical and woos the Anglicans. By Damian Thompson

Two and a half years after the name “Josephum” came booming down from the balcony of St Peter’s, making [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Let them in. But it’s still a mess Italy, Denmark, Switzerland . . . all around us we are having to deal with the consequences of immigration, by Gerard Baker

Immigration is toxic now in most of the developed world. In Britain, Gordon Brown’s Government seems eager to test to destruction its [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Wheat & Weeds reports from the front line of the revolution, even while undermining the struggle of the proletariat.

Categories: Entertainment

The Times - Independent Spirit Scotland needs more Adam Smith and less Robert the Bruce

What [Alex Salmond] should be seeking to do, nonetheless, is emulate the likes of Ireland and Estonia. Along with his call for independence by 2017, the First Minister set out a target of matching the United Kingdom average for economic [...]

Categories: Politics

TMZ - Cold Beer is Here

A New Zealand college student has created what can only be described as the most important beverage-related invention ever. Tired of lugging an ice chest to the beach with his mates, 22-year old student Kent Hodgson, created a portable device that cools beer in a [...]

Categories: Food