General,Politics
30 April 2009 | 0 Comments
Another day, another apocalypse. Just when you thought that this year couldn’t bring any more news of total doom, here comes swine flu to gee up the media and cause utter and total panic amongst a populace that should really have learnt not to trust headlines. Especially headlines like “KILLER swine flu is on a terrifying [...]
Politics
23 April 2009 | 10 Comments
I have little to do today, and so was planning a nice, lighthearted blog entry. About kittens, or something. And then I saw this. In which our favourite political laughing stock espouses some good old fashioned racism. Now, I know it’s St George’s day today, a day when the idiotic far right of the political divide come [...]
Net joy,Politics
15 April 2009 | 5 Comments
Whoever wrote the copy for this piece deserves medals. Lots and lots of shiny medals. ‘If You’re Gonna Have Tea Bagging All Over the Country, You’re Gonna Need A Dick Armey!’ If, btw, any of you are unsure what teabagging actually is, go here. It’s just hilarious what depths the Republicans will go to to [...]
General,Net joy
13 April 2009 | 0 Comments
Happy Easter everyone. A bit of inside baseball today, as I was rather excited to discover that I have passed the 5000 visitor mark. In the two and a half years that I have been writing this here blog, and spread out over 120 different posts, this averages at around 42 visitors per post. Considering [...]
TV
9 April 2009 | 6 Comments
I arrived pretty late to the game with The Apprentice (BBC1 Wednesdays), having succeeded in resisting its wily charms until last season, where I got sucked in somewhere around the middle of the season. I approached this series actually quite looking forward to its contrived drama and idiotic loons, but so far the whole thing [...]
General,Net joy
7 April 2009 | 2 Comments
Well, it’s been some considerable time since I last blogged, a period of time that can best be explained away by the fact that I dried up (post-wise, not literrally) roughly the same time I discovered Twitter. I know it’s platitudinous to enthuse about anything on the Internet, but I love Twitter. It requires virtually no [...]
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