Hey, it's only lives of Palestinians…. and it's only taxpayer money, thank God Blair will still get his fabulous salary for the wonderful job he's doing…. and oh yea, Israel is sorry…. Ehud Olmert is CRYING for the pain he caused. So it Tsipi Livni. (CNN and BBC are ...

from Sunday Herald, 25 January 2009 Ministers’ plans for a major expansion of renewable energy into the seas around Scotland could threaten wildlife, according to the government’s nature conservation advisers. In a report due out tomorrow, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) will highlight the risk ...

As an alien, I would not presume to make a public pronouncement on the US Presidential election next Tuesday. (Don't you just love the word "alien"?  Makes me feel like Uncle Martin in My Favorite Martian.) Nor indeed. would I dream of commenting on the other elections and plebescites that are occu...

The SFist just sent us this breaking news from San Francisco: “The ordinance initiative to changing the name of the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility to the ‘George W Bush Sewage Plant’ will, in fact, be on the November ballot.” This is great news for everybody, as it w...

In Ontario, Canada, they get a lot of sewage sludge out of the treatment plants; 120,000 tonnes are spread on 37,000 acres of agricultural land. Some farmers love it because it is free, while other fertilizers are getting very expensive; others refuse to touch the stuff. The Star is running a fascin...

[Photo courtesy of chicapoquita/flickr] Anyone who knows Greenpoint knows the site and, uh, smell of the Newtown Creek Waste Water Treatment Facility, which collects crap from far and wide. It has many distinctions, not the least of which is its long standing dysfunction and the epic and ongoing $2....

Some presidents get carved into Mt Rushmore; others have airports, motorways, and even entire cities named in their honour. But when George Bush leaves office, his most visible memorial may be a sewage plant named after him [the shit stops here]....

Man, how freakin easy is this one? For a president worthy of neither honor nor memorial, somehow, even this works. The city of San Francisco is looking to name its state-of-the-art sewage plant after George W. Bush, and why the hell not? For a man so full of s**t and void of shame, even a sewage tre...

I don’t have the vocabulary to describe the pure unadulterated unfettered rampant blistering murderous hatred I feel for hairy Siralan the second hand car dealer, his two arse-licking assistant yesfucks, and every single one of the simpering useless arrogant self-regarding vacuous delusional w...

sure, those luxury condos going up all over downtown austin might look pretty, but if you’re like, “dude, enough of this corporate bullshit!” our anonymous austin submitter says her building offers plenty of exciting local color you won’t find in those glass-and-steel towers....