Month: March 2009
Shut Up and Love Your Enemy: Obama Protects Torturers from the Tortured
'While Congress debates whether senior Bush administration officials should be called to account for the torture, humiliation and...
How to sell weapons. The Bollywood way.
This has given us quite the giggle at Blather HQ. Hat-tip to Annika Mengisen
Everything is amazing right now; and nobody is happy
Louis CK on Conan O'Brien's show. A timely call for a little bit more awe and amazement in...
The CIA, the US National Intelligence Estimate and the Israel Lobby
Scott Horton: "Hey Ray, you were George Bush's CIA briefer in the 1980s, right? OK, so and you...
Friday Choon: Burial’s ‘Archangel’
I have fallen madly in love with the wonderful album 'Untrue' from which the following track is taken....
‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ solution
I was browsing the modern interweb when I noticed that my watch had stopped. I found myself at...
Meanwhile back in reality, the UN will achieve a ‘drug-free world’ tomorrow
'The UN strategy on drugs over the past decade has been a failure, a European commission report claimed...
DictatorWatch: Obama is still technically King George
'...you may be thinking that the president no longer has the power to hold Americans without charge or...
Fortean Times review of A Load of Blather
Postal ambiquities, house moves, and international travel not withstanding.. last week my missing January edition of Fortean Times...
Hail to the Rebel Chimp
'For the past 12 years, visitors to Sweden's Furuvik Zoo have boldly approached the chimpanzee enclosure only to...