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Monthly Archives: July 2002

The Hottentot Venus returns to Africa 200 years after her abduction

“The first time Saartjie Baartman was dragged out to squat before the mob at 225 Piccadilly, the show’s promoters billed her genitals as resembling the skin that hangs from a turkey’s throat. For several years, working-class Londoners crowded in to shout vulgarities at the protruding buttocks and large vulva of the unfortunate woman made famous [...]

Big Brother ‘is mental health risk’

“Big Brother housemates risk serious mental illness and even nervous breakdowns as a result of the pressures of the reality TV show, a psychiatrist has warned. ”
Also: How Big Brother destroyed my life by Mel Hill ( Big Brother 1 villain )

NZ Maori anti-immigration politico…

Asian immigrants are “gatecrashers from an alien culture”.

Alien nation

“In a bare bedroom, I filmed 15-year-old Richard singing along to a track by Afroman. The lyrics described girls smelling like a fish shop and a girl being raped and buggered. I asked Richard if he thought the song portrayed girls accurately. “Yeah, most girls,” he said. He then told me about a 14-year-old girl [...]

Another gang rape in Ealing…

Is it linked with this one?
Other gang rapes in Lodon in recent years…
Update: Girls, 15, in gang rape horror - NEW
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/top_story.html?in_review_id=660682
Three hunted in gang rape
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=649745
Teenagers gang raped by up to 15 Asians
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/england/1894086.stm
Trio rape teenager
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P2AC4149
Driver took fare to be raped
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk:80/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=453197
14-year-old girl ‘gang raped by four youths’
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_385550.html
Police hunt rape trio - June 11, 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1382000/1382580.stm
Student ‘was raped [...]

“A Physicist Investigates the Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Postmodern Faux Left”

“In its 1996 Spring/Summer issue (pp. 217-252), Social Text journal published an article by Allan Sokal, Professor of Physics at New York University, entitled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.” The article was a hoax submitted, according to Sokal, to see “would a leading journal of cultural studies publish an article [...]

Beethoven’s 9th symphony stretched to 24 hours

http://www.notam02.no/9/
The consensus is that the 5th movement is the best. It is beautiful. Bizarrely calming. It reminds me very much of The better parts of The KLF’s legendary ‘Chill Out’ album (http://tinyurl.com/u3t). Do yourself a favour and have a listen.

System Administrator Appreciation Day - Friday - July 26th, 2002

Be nice to your technical gimps just for one day.

Race crime, media bias and trial by ordeal in the media age

So the Lawrence suspects (need we bother with their names?) have been convicted of a racially aggravated offence.
Quel surpise.
Setting aside whether or not these two actually were involved in the killing of Stephen Lawrence, trial by media has firmly established them as guilty of killing Stephen Lawrence. This is a considerable handicap to have to [...]

US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen s - Sydney Morning Herald

Stasi USA