Personally I got everything I hoped for from my vote the morning after the election when, as Bill Greider predicted, white supremacy was defeated. Thus appointments like Tim Geithner and Dennis Ross don’t bother me as much as they would if I had any expectations. The cognitive-psych folks tell...

The threat from militant Islam is the most hideously difficult of the lot to counter.  It is formed from two parts, that swathe of the Muslim population throughout the world prepared to take up arms against the West via whatever terrorist organisation is to hand, and those rogue states which h...

Having listed, in my preceding post, who I think are the enemies of the West, by which I mean the USA (but as we in Britain ultimately depend  on the USA as our 'ally of last resort', then that includes us as well), I will try and put them into some sort of priority l...

Now that Everything Officially Sucks And Baby Boomers Are Doomed To Be Unsatisfied Assholes Forever, even the barolo is bad, apparently. You could almost taste the global economic desperation in this, if the sense of entitlement weren't totally in the......

Am I alone (probably, I usually am) in experiencing acute nausea at the sight and sound of the pigs who  are normally to be found with their snouts in the Parliamentary (or Congressional) trough, snorting and snuffling in pseudo rage at the swine who filled their boots at our expen...

It appears that Israel will have a government serious about its security. Israeli President Shimon Peres chose hard-line Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new Israeli government on Friday, ending days of speculation and giving Netanyahu six weeks to......

President Barack Obama was in Ottawa (aka Iowa) during his first foreign tour this Thursday, when one of his most recognisable "tricks" made a return. Snooty Face is baaaack. Behold, the arrogant American abroad. Dude, go to a chiropractor or something. ADDED: Snootyfacepalooza! EXIT QUESTION: You t...

I chanced on a curious blog yesterday, called Head Wide Open, which made me laugh and gasp in turns. The blogger certainly has an original take on life, which I appreciate because I think I do too. Of course, people like us won't always please everyone -- but that's rather the fun of life, don't you...

Immanuel or Emmanuel or Imanu'el (Hebrew עִמָּנוּ�ֵל "God [is] with us" consists of two Hebrew words: �ֵל (’El, meaning 'God') and עִמָּנוּ (ʻImm�nū, meaning 'with us'); Standard Hebrew ʻImmanuʼel, Tiberian Hebrew ʻImm�nûʼēl). Dear God, Fidel Castro has come out wit...

In Cesspool Land, our Crazy Gland is pumpin' out these potential perpetrators of that bigass Beijing blaze, yo: 1. Supervillains2. Kung pao farts3. Rem Koolhaus himself, bein' all meta4. Thrash metal5. Michael Bay Yawn, some shit is on fire:...