Tuesday, February 24, 2004
The race brouahaha resulting from MacPhersons grossly unfair report has, according to the Chief of Police, resulted in “his officers [being] so afraid of being accused of racism when dealing with ethnic minority colleagues that they found it hard to admit it when they made mistakes “for fear that by owning up to shortcomings they [...]
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Novelist Elmore Leonard sets out his simple but superb rules for good fiction writing.
Monday, February 23, 2004
The Lords Resistance Army are at it again. Notorious for lopping off the ears noses and lips of non-combatants (not that doing this to soldiers would excuse it), their most recent attack has claimed 190 victims, some of them burnt alive in an horrific attack.
“My parents were burnt alive in one of the huts. I [...]
Monday, February 23, 2004
…then we notice what’s on the chalk board. Looks like an indoctrination lesson.From LGF
The Associated Press says these are Palestinian students “studying English.” Or maybe they’re getting a “lesson” about the security fence.
I manipulated the brightness and contrast of the blackboard a little to show the “lesson” more clearly:
Resist the wall.
The wall must fall.
The wall [...]
Monday, February 23, 2004
Civitas have delivered a classic. It is fundamentally a restatement of what is obvious: Those people at the back of the church wailing and weeping, the ones who did not know the deceased (his daughters acquaintances or colleagues he never knew), they are wailing for sport. A friend labelled it “emotional masturbation” and whilst [...]
Monday, February 23, 2004
“People on diets should be forgiven for moaning that chocolate tastes better when you’re hungry. Just missing breakfast makes you more sensitive to sweet and salty tastes, according to research to be published next week in BMC Neuroscience.
Hunger could increase your ability to taste, by increasing the sensitivity of the taste receptors on your [...]
Monday, February 23, 2004
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Monday, February 23, 2004
“Fecal matter gets onto toothbrushes through the act of our flushing toilets we have just defecated into. Small particles of what is being flushed away are aerosolized into tiny invisible droplets which are sprayed through the air at distances up to 20 feet away. Our toothbrushes, lying helplessly on the bathroom counter, are routinely spritzed [...]
Monday, February 23, 2004
Some old and new stories I have in my spooling tray worth noting somewhere…
Telegraph
A profile of the Scourge of Political Islam: Bernard Lewis
Lewis’s political message is as simple as it is uncompromising. “If the peoples of the Middle East continue on their present path,” he warned in December 2001, “the suicide bomber may become a [...]