Archives: 2006 August
Olbermann’d, or The Sound of Worms Turning
August 31st, 2006, No Comments
I remember way back when, before the Iraq war was a twinkle in Rummy’s sclerotic eye, being flamed horribly on usenet for suggesting that Americans were being bamboozled by their news and media outlets. They were most insulted: you’d’ve thought I’d suggested that all Americans committed incest as a matter of course considering the hysterical [...]
Throw back the little ones and pan-fry the big ones
August 30th, 2006, No Comments
Is it hip to be a Steely Dan fan again yet? Whether it is or no I’ve always liked them and I’ve been relistening to Aja lately, which is why this odd little snippet of gossip in the Grauniad caught my eye:
Please, if anyone knows what Steely Dan duo Walter Becker and Donald Fagen are [...]
This Does not Inspire Confidence
August 30th, 2006, No Comments
There’s a good reason why they’re called the plod.
Watch Mark Thomas with a video camera runs rings around a bevy of beefy transport police at Highbury & Islington tube station – it’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages. This lot couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery, let alone a bloody war on [...]
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August 30th, 2006, No Comments
Playing Tony’s Game
Times Withholds Web Article in Britain
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: August 29, 2006
If Web readers in Britain were intrigued by the headline ?Details Emerge in British Terror Case,? which sat on top of The New York Times?s home page much of yesterday, they would have been disappointed with a click.
Details Emerge in British [...]
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August 29th, 2006, No Comments
Here Comes The Rain Again
Sorry for the absence of posts for the past couple of days, but life intervened in the form of a collapsing wardrobe and the realisation that it’s nearly autumn, none of my clothes fit me, and I really own a lot of crap I’m just too sentimental to throw away. A [...]
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August 26th, 2006, No Comments
You Can Tell Which Way The Wind Blows…
When big cosmetic companies like Lauder subsidiary MAC start running ads like this, in which comedian Sandra Bernhardt refers to “thin-lipped Republican bitches”:
On the whole it’s a crap ad apart from that one outburst, but it was withdrawn immediately once the predictable howls came from those who [...]
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August 26th, 2006, No Comments
Irony Is Dead
Or at the very least it’s gasping like a landed fish. Consider this morning’s headline:
Washington to investigate Israel’s use of cluster bombs in conflict
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Published: 26 August 2006
The US government is investigating whether Israel has broken secret agreements with Washington with its use of cluster bombs in the Lebanon [...]
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August 25th, 2006, No Comments
Help!
The Power Of The Internet: Texas Beatles fan foils burglary on the other side of Atlantic by webcam
A Texas man was browsing Liverpool webcam sites, looking at locations associated with the Beatles, when he noticed 3 men scaling a ladder. He called the Liverpol police, who swooped and arrsted the burglars on the spot.
The man [...]
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August 25th, 2006, No Comments
Feh, Enough Seriousness. It’s Friday, Bring On The Pole-Dancing Kitten!
Read more… YouTube, Friday cat-blogging, Kittens pole-dancing, Cuteness
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August 25th, 2006, No Comments
A Load of Bull? LRB On Hardt, Negri, Sovereignty and Totalitarianism
The London Review of Books has this thought-provoking review, by Malcolm Bull, of Hardt & Negri’s influential Empire.
Bull posits that Negri has substituted Spinoza for Marx in his political reasoning on sovereignty (which is based in the autonomist movement) and that this distorts [...]
