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The Times - He ventured forth to bring light to the world The anointed one’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers, by Gerard Baker

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger [...]

Categories: Politics

Telegraph Blogs - The Radovan Karadzic trial will be a travesty, by Daniel Hannan

“The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague was little more than a kangaroo court, though without the very real advantages of that kind of legal establishment, namely speed and economy.”

Pffff!

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Telegraph - By George

Sadder news comes from Cosham, Hampshire, of 14 tortoises, including eight young, being rustled from a schoolmistress’s garden - a despicable crime, worse than taking lead from a roof. Tortoises, now no longer legally imported, are popular in Britain, and even the underworld should cold-shoulder tortoise-nappers.

Augh [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Headline: Identical twins marry, give birth to identical twins

EW!

Subheadline: When identical twin sisters Diane and Darlene Nettemeier met identical twin brothers Craig and Mark Sanders a decade ago…

Oh thank god.

Then I noticed the Telegraph redesign: Ew!

Categories: People and Current Events

Daily Mail - Your fawning offends Islam Archbishop… not your Christianity, by Peter Hitchens

This prelate [Rowan "Guess Who?!" Williams] whimpered last week that Christianity was ‘offensive’ to Muslims. Offensive? I know we have been urged to stop being horrid to this inept, terrifyingly well meaning man - and it really [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Peter updated me to Wordpress 2.6, which has an iPhone app, which, so the legend goes, has photo uploading capabilities. Which should come in pretty handy for, ah, travelling (untethered to a laptop woo!). So let’s see. As a test, I give you Peter’s iPhone 3G and my little old phone taken with my first [...]

Categories: Electronics

“It is not going to be a political speech,” said a senior foreign policy adviser, who spoke to reporters on background [of this speech in Berlin (at the Victory Column? Seriously?)]. “When the president of the United States goes and gives a speech, it is not a political speech or a political rally. [...]

Categories: Politics

The Times - ‘I felt no hatred and I did not fear death’ Last month, just before the Zimbabwean election, this farmer wrote a dramatic article in The Times describing President Mugabe’s intimidation campaign. Here he recalls what happened afterwards, by Ben Freeth

A lot of prayer features in there. Besides all the guns and fleeing women, [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Eventually, we will all hate Obama too What makes America such an indispensable power is precisely what makes anti-Americanism inevitable, by David Aaronovitch

George W.Bush, of course, represents a particular kind of offence to European sensibilities. He blew out Kyoto, instead of pretending to care about it and then not implementing it, [...]

Categories: Politics

Last night Peter and I broke open a nice(ish) bottle of wine (Louis Martini: twelve dollars) to celebrate our negative-one month anniversary. So I figure it’s probably about time to let everyone know what’s going on.

The wedding’s in Menlo Park on August 20th. A Wednesday. The next day we’re getting on a plane, the day [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Sunday Telegraph - Why has China bought Mugabe a mansion? By Christopher Booker

It may not be surprising that, as befits any mad dictator, President Mugabe is now the proud owner of a palatial £4.5 million mansion in Harare and a similarly lavish country hideaway, each fitted with the latest electronic security systems, [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Well. That was unexpected. Full series at Leopard savaging a crocodile caught on camera. “In the past, there have been reports of crocodiles killing leopards, but this is believed to the first time that the reverse scenario has been observed.” Man, it’s a good thing he had his camera out.

Previously: The Buffalo Have Become [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

When Wall-E came out (Bubblehead hated it “viscerally“? When did he trade his soul in for a high-density, negative-energy-gravitationally-fielded lump of coal?) I went to the Cinerama with a group of Peter’s coworkers on opening night. It’s a lovely old theater just blocks away from their office and it’s always full of happy, shiny, applauding [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Mr Krauthammer is making quite a splash today. LGF’s been digging in his archives…

WaPo - Phony Theory, False Conflict ‘Intelligent Design’ Foolishly Pits Evolution Against Faith, by Charles Krauthammer

Because every few years this country, in its infinite tolerance, insists on hearing yet another appeal of the Scopes monkey trial, I feel obliged to point [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

A bit of entertaining journalistic stock-phrasing over at Wheat & Weeds

Categories: People and Current Events