With apologies to Akaky Akakievich

But I simply have to copy here this example of poetic prowess*, seeing as how a normal reader doesn't usually bother to click through: ...

Watcher’s Council Nominations – Scary Monsters Edition

Council Submissions The Noisy Room – Presidential Depraved Indifference The Political Commentator – A must read psychological analysis of ...

People can laugh even these days...

Hat tip: Y.Z.

And meanwhile in the forests of Maine: Andrew Ian Dodge for Senate!

Exclusive: Obama presides over liquidation of Hurricane Sandy

Here it comes: Identified as a clear and present danger (which, in the currently politically correct version, is "serious and big"...

Etgar Keret's new house - in Warsaw

How's this for a "...but we're still here story"? Etgar Keret has had a house built for him in Warsaw, coincidentally very...

Gideon Levy, the baron of deceit industry, deconstructed

This headline was depressing indeed: Survey: Most Israeli Jews would support apartheid regime in Israel Even if interpreted by the self-appo...

Life for dummies. And blogging too.

Here .

This reads like it's one of "Ripley's Believe it or Not" exhibits

There's a strange article in The Guardian (I know, I know) that, if it were from any one of a number of other UK papers, I'd be mor...

Turmoil in Israeli politics, reports Ynet

Ex-Kadimah boss & Labor to join forces; Likud & Yisrael-Beiteinu to merge, it says here. There are those of you out there who will b...

Does the Respect party employ openly Fascist people now?

Oh boy, you'll love (irony warning) this: via the Jewish Chronicle (and The Tablet), some idiot from the (regrettably not fringe enough)...

Che Guevara condoms: quite a necessary item

This is not a new story. Thanks to Shaun , I learned about it, albeit a bit late. Shaun adds: It is therefore quite ironic that such an impl...

The Council Has Spoken!

Council Winners *First place with 3 2/3 votes! Joshuapundit – Heart Of Darkness – The Real Benghazi Coverup Second place with 1 2/3 vot...

Euphemisms, Nidal Hasan and Christina Hendricks

Euphemism is defined as "an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh&qu...

More reading comprehension problems

That headline really threw me: Ex-teacher, NFL cheerleader and student lover talk about relationship Student, I says to myself, who snared a...

Italy: the verdict is perverse and the sentence ludicrous.

The decision of an Italian court is a sad milestone in relationship between democracies and science: At the end of a 13-month trial, six sc...

Watcher’s Council Nominations – Horses And Bayonets Edition

Council Submissions The Right Planet – Mr. President, Here’s What Offends Me … The Noisy Room – A Red and Present Danger GrEaT sAtAn”S gI...

The New Republic thinks the American people don't like the Iranian bomb any more than the US politicians

The New Republic was, back in the day, a distinctly liberal (and in the USA, that means pinko) journal. It may be a little less "left&q...

Gloom for Israel from The Commentator (but we've been here before: 1956, 1967...)

The noose tightens around Israel, guesses The Commentator Having given you something to sigh over, while knowing that this doesn't reall...

The socialism (or the human rights, perhaps) of fools lives - unfortunately

There's an interesting article (I use the word "interesting" loosely) in the current issue of The Commentator. The essential ...

Want a licensed Che Guevara on your undies?

Not a problem . Just visit the Brand Licensing Europe trade show in Olympia, London. Pay what you are told to, and you could easily become a...

Speculating on Iran-Israel nuclear conflict: this way insanity waits

Boys usually indulge in fantasies of a "military" type, probably from the moment they are able to construct sentences of the "...

Loving Dhahi Khalfan - URGENT!

This is a call for immediate action. All the Tweeterheads, please join the new movement to help a man in a terrible situation. I am talking ...

Ann Romney trounces Michelle Obama in First Lady Debate

Phenomenal!

Rabbi Ovadia: lost in translation again?

It is already a matter of tradition, that after each verbal shenanigan perpetrated by the Rabbi, some minion of his comes out with a benign ...

Andrew Ian Dodge on Portland TV

Gaza-bound aid ship Estelle: no humanitarian aid on board

Makes sense , doesn't it? After all, Syria needs a lot of humanitarian assistance these days, and this is where uncounted flotillas are ...

Fidel Castro's health and Dr Marquina's prophetic powers

According to this : The rumour mill surrounding the health of Fidel Castro is churning despite a letter from the ageing Cuban revolutionary ...

"Lomonosov or Zuckerberg?" or unbearable pain of a good priest

Fate (or, rather, email) brought to my attention a peculiar article in a peculiar publication. The name of the publication - Russian People&...

A question

It is the title of the best political post I've seen for quite some time. Since it's short, I hope the author wouldn't mind if I...

The Upside of "Fun Size", or May Contain Peanuts

Details inside .

How to enslave humans 101

To all who still doubt the superiority of feline folks.

The Council Has Spoken!

Council Winners *First place with 3 1/3 votes! The Independent Sentinel – False Benghazi Narrative Exposed, Bizarre Finger Pointing, a Lea...

The fragility and strength of democracy

I've just come back from a lecture sponsored by the Electoral Reform International Services organisation (and for those of you with know...

What price freedom?

In this post I raise what I consider to be a real problem for those of us who are lovers of freedom: how far do we restrict other people'...

What is a pol doing for $200,000?

I would rather ask what wouldn't a pol do for such an amount, but let's flow with the story : A Pittsburgh woman is suing Democratic...

Judith Butler is the perfect recipient for a prize named after the patron saint of obfuscation

That's a great title for this piece . The author, one Liel Leibovitz, uses his space (a couple of pages) demonstrating how Adorno and Bu...

Kafka's papers saved for the world!

On a lighter note from me (well, I think it's lighter, but then that assumes that you think that Kafka is light compared with, eg, Iran&...

I'll believe it when it happens

It says, in the report via The Tablet that "European Union governments agreed further sanctions against Iran's banking, shipping a...

Why We Recoil at Unpleasant Sounds, or FARS against Mahmoud the Mad

Usually loyal to the hilt, this time FARS dared to put up an article with a well hidden, almost subliminal, but still detectable, criticism...

You know that the future is already here...

when you read a sentence like this one about a new computer : The screen is drip resistant, and it has a drain in case you spill on it. Oh w...

Somebody, please explain this to Swedish FM...

Because 1) I don't know no Swedish and 2) Even this article I have to translate from Hebrew, since I didn't find yet its English co...

Music to my ears!

“The Palestinians have never been among the top-10 priorities of any Arab government. Arab leaders don’t give a damn about the Palestinians....

Telling it like it is, from The Commentator

Every so often, one comes across an item that really resonates, really tells it like it is, that says what we feel, but because it's som...

It's not all gloom and doom out there

A quick post to tell you that there are good people out there, so we're not alone! Isn't it great when people state the necessary (n...

Great Prophet World Prize - the Islamic answer to Nobel

No kidding : Iran announced on Saturday that it plans to award Nobel-like science and technology prizes to selected Muslim scientists. And t...

Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley - theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design

Whatever, but sounds mysterious .

Oh, Debka, Debka...

In the Debka usual style: Hizballah official? $5bn? First of all, there wasn't any fleeing Hez official, it's all just rumors. Besid...

The Bolshevik Jews what rule Britain

Here they are: The revealing picture above is taken from a clip below, where one of the chief conspinuts and overall brainiacs, Jeff Rense, ...

Science on men's attraction to breasts

A bit of a confusion that subject,really. One thinks that at one's advanced age one can't be surprised by discoveries in this er... ...

The Winners of the Inaugural Walter Duranty Prize

The field is quite crowded, so it's not an easy choice, but with some effort ...

Andrew Ian Dodge on Fox Bangor

The Council Has Spoken!

Council Winners *First place with 3 2/3 votes! Bookworm Room – The girl’s guide to visiting the USS Makin Island Second place with 2 2/3...