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After a fun weekend, we’re back (I’m back, Peter’s being dragged along) to doing useful stuff: lampshades, pillows, dishes, utensils, armchair, fake flowers, fake plants, cooking utensils, a jar to put them in, and other stuff like that.

But Twitter-readers will have noticed we went whale watching Friday night. Peter has all the better pictures on […]

Categories: Science and Nature

Linked to by LGF:

I’m told #7 Stop-Loss opened to only $1.6 million Friday from just 1,291 plays and should eke out $4 M. Although the drama from MTV Films was the best-reviewed movie opening this weekend, Paramount wasn’t expecting much because no Iraq war-themed movie has yet to perform at the box office. […]

Categories: Entertainment

This is rather entertaining:

The Sunday Times - Carla Bruni, a perfectly lovely predator One shouldn’t love her, really, but I’m nearly as mad about her as Sarkozy is, by India Knight

Although I don’t get why these women columnists keep saying she’s such a threat. Doesn’t that imply (or aren’t they admiting) that the rest of us […]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - The style of Carla Bruni, First Lady of France From the gossip columns to the corridors of power, we trace the restyling of Mme Sarkozy

Sarah Vine:

From a female point of view, there is no doubt that the woman is a menace, a lethal combination of beauty and ruthlessness. But you have […]

Categories: Politics

The Times - Hillary Clinton; fibber in chief Her blatant deceit over Bosnia, among other lies, is about the last nail in her coffin, by Gerard Baker

Someone once noted that the thing about the Clintons is that they will choose a big lie when a small lie will do, and choose a small lie […]

Categories: Politics

Since Peter arrived last night, I’ve been doing more touristy things: dinner last night at Leilanis, a day bobbing around in the ocean and wandering around Lahaina, an evening daubing lotion on the bits of me I didn’t touch up properly after bobbing around in the ocean… (damnit!)

But lest you think I wasn’t getting any […]

Categories: Science and Nature

Times Online - Shane Warne retires from first-class cricket

Categories: Sports and Leisure

NUT. They’re called nuts.

The Times - The Army must go into schools Rule one: never underestimate the vacuous posturing of the National Union of Teachers, by Magnus Linklater

Yesterday the NUT debated a motion that stated that: “Teachers and schools should not be conduits for either the dissemination of MoD propaganda or the recruitment of […]

Categories: War and Peace

Lucky Philip.

Now, seriously, people. This is a major crisis.

Carla Bruni, fashion model, seen nude by most of Europe, is now the First Lady of France. If this isn’t a desperate reason to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House, I don’t know what is.

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Ooh, he gets catty in blog form:

Times Online Blogs - Hillary Under Fire, by Gerard Baker

And this one too (even the predictable screed against religion is good):

Slate - Blind FaithThe statements of clergymen like Jeremiah Wright aren’t controversial and incendiary; they’re wicked and stupid. By Christopher Hitchens

I’d be extensively quoting both of them, but then […]

Categories: Politics

ninme: Hotness for Word Guys

(Curtsy: RC2, who just emailed me that, right before he emailed me the other thing, hence the “devil” remark in the previous post.)

Categories: Wildcard

I am outraged, outraged! that Disney is using my trade name to market their cheesy merchandise to the Asian market!

Curtsy: Vanderleun (speak of the devil, RC2, and he shall email you!), who just emailed it to me. Because I can’t reply: No, I haven’t seen it.

Categories: Business & Media

I’ve had this open since Saturday, so I really should just link to it now so I can close the window (my poor lil’ laptop doesn’t do multiple Safari windows very well (it’s all those ads)):

Telegraph - Without Christianity, our society is doomed , by Peter Mullen

It’s quite a ripping wee piece, by “The Rev […]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - This organic view is bananas Why should African farmers suffer because do-gooders are trying to cut carbon emissions? by Mick Hume

To all of the ill-effects blamed on man-made global warming, we might add one more. It appears that an obsession with climate change can make sane people warm to mad ideas. […]

Categories: Science and Nature

I didn’t take this today, but yesterday after all my toils I felt like I needed to take a picture of the beach:

I feel sort of dishonest posting it (”hey, look at the great beach I’ve been sitting on!”) since I haven’t set foot on it since, and had to make a point to go […]

Categories: Wildcard