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Thursday, March 31, 2011

moussa koussa say: eh-oh

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These things always seem obvious with the benefit of hindsight, but clearly, as this week's events involving Libyan Foreign Minister Mou...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

incidental music spot of the day

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Falling by the lovely Kate Rusby over the closing credits of the mind-expanding "Gravity" edition (falling/gravity, you see wha...
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any sufficiently advanced apple is indistinguishable from god

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Just a couple of supplements to the previous post - firstly here's the mellow and mellifluous tones of the late Carl Sagan illustrating...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

any sufficiently advanced theology is indistinguishable from bollocks

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There's been an interesting discussion going on at, variously, Richard Dawkins , PZ , Ophelia and Jerry 's blogs the last few weeks...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

coke is it

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More Daily Mail drug hysteria hilarity: nothing so very remarkable there, you might say, and you'd be right. But wait: Melanie Phillips...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

the last book I read

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The War Zone by Alexander Stuart. Tom is a teenage boy, a bit surly and angst -y, as adolescent boys are; his mood hasn't been helped b...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

knob!

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Just a quick jaunt up a couple of hills yesterday, but I took the GPS so I may as well share the output. In fact, here it is (click to enlar...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

the last book I read

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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson. Now I know it sounds like some sort of sex thing , but the reference is actually to ...
Thursday, March 03, 2011

iran lion zion

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Also in the Daily Mail , this amusing story about Iranian objections to the London 2012 Olympic logo, on the slightly barking grounds that ...

the god dilution

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It seems almost cruel to have a pop at homeopathy, because it is so clearly and unequivocally bollocks by its very definition, but I've...
Monday, February 28, 2011

the last book I read

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Spiderweb by Penelope Lively. Stella Brentwood is a social anthropologist, so she's spent her whole professional life observing people, ...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

massive UTAC

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When I saw Chris Ashton score his third try against Italy during the last round of Six Nations matches a couple of weeks ago, I thought to m...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

the last book I read

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My Ántonia by Willa Cather. Some novels grab you by the throat from the moment you read the blurb on the back cover. Hermaphrodite human-al...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

what we did at the weekend

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Here's a few links that may be of interest from our weekend in Exmoor: we stayed at the Lorna Doone Hotel in Porlock, which in addition...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

snookus loopius nuttius sumus

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Never let it be said that I don't know how to show a lady a good time. Since the lovely Hazel is currently on a diet, and therefore the ...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

the hubbard is bare

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Just a quick footnote to the last post : Russell Miller's 1987 Hubbard biography Bare-Faced Messiah is hard to get hold of in physical...

scientollocks!

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Further opportunities for chuckly fun at the expense of idiots and/or arseholes can be found in the current amusing spat between the New ...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

the last book I read

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The Fermata by Nicholson Baker. Arno Strine is a 35-year-old office temp. So he's not made as much of his life as he might have done, y...
Monday, February 07, 2011

you've got to laugh

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Well, I've certainly been getting my gloats this week. It's been like a big steaming bowl of natural gloatmeal, or possibly a double...
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Sunday, February 06, 2011

swear wars 3: return of the jeremy

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Evidently there's a bit of rivalry going on between the various current affairs shows broadcast by the BBC, as illustrated by Jeremy Pax...
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