They really did: PYTHON: Vice-Pope Eric? What is the Catholic position? VICE-POPE: Well I’ve never personally, er… so I wouldn’t… PYTHON: No, no, on sex and marriage. VICE-POPE: Oh. Well our main worry at this stage is intra-marital sex. PYTHON: … Continue reading
This is just plain cheating. If you’re driving in the USA and see a sign saying something like “Warning Narcotics Check Point Ahead”, it’s best to keep driving: The local sheriff’s office had established the signs as a “ruse” to … Continue reading
I’m really disappointed by this. Colin Percival is a fine computer scientist. In a blog post titled In Defence of Truth he wrote the following: Surely, I thought, policy decisions must be guided by facts. Not so. Instead, I was … Continue reading
A parody of IKEA’s herding cats video, apparently. Grab a frappuccino and enjoy: Thanks, Kate.
Interesting headline in the NY Times today: G.O.P. Insurgents Win in Del. and N.Y. First terrorists became insurgents, now a political movement in the USA can be smeared by implication and association. Classy, NYT.
Bad news from Hamas spokesman Ahmad Bahr: It is said that ‘Omar [Ibn Al-Khattab] wished to become a martyr. It is said that one day, ‘Omar addressed the people: “In the Garden of Eden, there is a palace – hear … Continue reading
From here, posted with the permission of the authors.
Here’s something that has made it into some of the left wing blogs but, so far as I can see, none of the right wing ones. Maybe that’s because Tim titled his post Conservatives and the dangerous games they play: … Continue reading
What accounts for the sort of heartfelt drivel that followed the really rather uncontroversial observation Hawking recently made that current thinking in physics can account for the universe without the need for a creation event or a creator? I suspect … Continue reading
From the Drivelling Dauphin, Charles Windsor: Asked by Bleakley what he thought of climate change doubters, the Prince responded: ”I find it quite extraordinary, because to me it seems only sensible to take a precautionary approach. There is something going … Continue reading