And black people, as always, are left to clean up the shit that drops from the imperial anus of white corporate America into the ghettoized toilets of terror
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oh… hang on… what year is it now? Over on Climate Depot, they have a wonderful run down on how the climate’s doomsday clock keeps getting reset. But of course THIS TIME ITS FOR REAL. Honest. Sadly this 2007 prediction has proved to be a few years out, because whilst the hysteria is indeed visibly on the wane, a great many people do not seem to have got the memo telling them it has been noticed that their Emperor has no clothes. April 16th, 2014 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Whaddya think? Are either of these two articles from the Guardian Comment Network (i.e. lefty blogs to which the Guardian gives a larger audience) for real, or are they magnificent satire? From SE Smith, a writer who “lives and works in northern California, covering social justice issues”: ‘The people are so beautiful!’ That’s enough of the colonial tourism
From Tom Whyman, a well-named PhD Philosophy student: Beware of cupcake fascism
April 15th, 2014 | 39 comments - (Comments are closed)
…Mark Goddard of Newton Abbot in Devon is not a man afraid to take his medical destiny into his own
That was the Express. The Mirror adds some more details:
While it is not the place of the police to criticise the behaviour of citizens who have remained within the law, it would be a harsh judge who held it against the police spokesman quoted that the placement of his penultimate word did imbue his observations with a slightly ironical tone. I totally support Mr Goddard’s right to do as he pleases with his own body, sympathise with the suffering that led him to take such a desperate measure, applaud the practical and rational way he went about it, and very much hope that the NHS will be persuaded to take his pain seriously in future, but I am not sure I would recommend his method. Hands up who thinks it was a good idea? (Er, not you, Mark.) March 30th, 2014 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
Why I wuvs capitalism, part Umpteen Hundred and Two. No. 6: Bach on a Japanese forest xylophone. It’s actually a mobile phone advert. March 21st, 2014 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
There is an article on the Grauniad site called ‘Men – if you’re not a feminist, it’s fine, just move on’ which was rather amusing. My position is no one, male or female, should have any statutory right to maternity or paternity leave, and indeed an employee should not expect it unless they negotiated for that with their employer. So it seems that as I favour equality in maternity and paternity leave, I am a feminist according to some commenters! Who knew? 😉 January 9th, 2014 | 34 comments - (Comments are closed)
People in Shaoshan in China, the birthplace of Chairman Mao, are making good money selling keepsakes of history’s most prolific mass murderer. I find it odd that the BBC reporter doing a little video on that somehow neglected to ask “why are you selling souvenirs of a man responsible for murdering tens of millions of your fellow Chinese people?” Actually I think we all know why that question never got asked. Clearly Braunau am Inn in Austria is missing a trick. December 23rd, 2013 | 27 comments - (Comments are closed)
From the world of Star Wars. Maybe Samizdata’s own Paul Marks could get one and send a death ray in the general direction of the Economist. November 6th, 2013 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
Sunday night strangeness: why does an academic book about fruit flies cost $23,698,655.93 on Amazon?Michael Eisen is a biologist, who studies the fruit fly drosophila with especial interest as nearly all biologists appear to do for some reason some of our learned readers will, I hope, explain to me. In his own words,
And the price was rising steeply almost as he watched. Why? I had often wondered this myself. Not that the development of the fruit fly has generally been my first choice for a riveting read, but I did once come gulpingly close to pressing the “Buy now with 1-Click” button for Connie Long’s Easy Guide to Sewing Linings before noticing just in time that it was going for more than two hundred pounds. It is now down to a mere £86 new / £44 used. I was kind of hoping for under £10. I am an idle waster who noted the strangeness and passed on; Doctor Eisen is a research scientist. He duly researched and explained all. November 3rd, 2013 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
The bloke who posted this describes it as,’The same scene everyone knows, except it is from a film called “Hitler: The Last Ten Days” starring Alec Guinness.’ Presumably both this film and Der Untergang followed Traudl Junge’s diaries quite closely for this scene. October 26th, 2013 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
We are the ones, we militants without a strategy of emancipation, who are (and who have been for some time now) the real aphasics! And it is not the sympathetic and unavoidable language of movementist democracy that will save us. – Professor Alain Badiou, in an article arguing that “We need to rediscover the language of Communism.” October 3rd, 2013 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
The odds of people dying in a terrorist attack obviously are still a lot lower than in a car accident, unfortunately. – President of the USA Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, speaking on the Jay Leno show August 8th, 2013 | 26 comments - (Comments are closed)
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