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• 'Uncle Sam Obama' Should Mind His Own Damned Business!

  

  In an unusual example of prescience - highly unusual on this blog! - I intimated a few days ago that the calibre of foreign service officers with the American... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Now This Really is Total War by Other Means

  Those canny fellows at NightWatch had a very pertinent commentary concerning the Sino-Japanese dispute over the Senkaku Islands - no, me neither, but it concern... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Sometimes I Despair of Hollywood

  Please read this quotatation: He was not what Sorenson had been expecting. Not exactly. He wasn't a gorilla and he wasn't like something out of a slasher... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'If Irony Be the Food of Humour, Give Me Excess of It'!

  Yes, yes, I know, cod Shakespeare (sorry Will!) but today I have a huge, 'gi-normous' dollop of irony, enough for me to surfeit on for weeks! Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• And Here's Another!

  

  Sometimes there are no words but this picture must be worth, oh, what, say, about whatever the extra tax was that Obama just took out of American pay checks? Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Another Picture Worth a Thousand Words

  

  Well, given the rate of price inflation indicated in the diagram, perhaps we should say 'a picture worth a billion words'! It appeared on Zero Hedge which is... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Commonsense from the Commons - SHLOCK-HORROR!

  

  Intelligent thinking - well, any sort of thinking, really - is fairly rare in Westminster but we have an excellent example of it today in the form of a report... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2013 HUMOR

• "Watch the Pea, Very, Very Carefully."

  

  That's the order from the 'Tallbloke' and as I am not particularly tall, I'll just do as I'm told! And it's worth it because he neatly eviscerates a paper... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'Cleggeron' Beats 'Mogadon'

  Well? Didja see 'em, didja, didja? No, me neither! It seems the entire country went on about its business yesterday utterly disinterested in what our prime and... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Either Turner the Artist Or 'Dearieme' the Commenter Has a Huge Fan Base!

  Returning from my daily swim this morning - by the way, have I mentioned . . . alright, alright, no need to shout! - I came upstairs, switched on and thought fo... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble 7/01/13

  

  It's the solar rays wot dunnit! Once again this blog was wrong - so no surprise there, then! In fact, this blog is pissed off with having to keep owning up to... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Once a Year We Get a Glimpse Under the Blanket

  

  In all the New Year broo-ha-ha I forgot to share my amusement at the annual release of classified documents under the 30-year rule. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Interesting Times in Israel - God Help Us!

  

  According to two newspaper reports I have read, Benjamin Netanyahu is losing popularity in the run-up to the forthcoming election. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• It Was a Good Day Until the Name of Anne Frank Came Up!

  Yes, I was enjoying a quiet day, sitting up here in my attic scrolling through 'Blogdom' and then I hit the name "Anne Frank" who is the subject of an article i... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Pinched off Pittenger!

  

  Even by my elliptical standards that is one of my more obscure titles. However, regular readers will recognise the name of Donald Pittenger, the sole... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• In Which Rabbi Sacks Waxes Lyrical

  I have been banging on for weeks about the book written by Rabbi Sacks called The Great Partnership. Christmas festivities interrupted my reading but I have... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A Madhouse Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma!

  I confess immediately that when it comes to North Korea I rely utterly on those shrewd fellows at NightWatch who kindly sent me their overnight assessment of th... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Where Ultra-strict Gun-control Laws Really Work - NOT!

  I am sort of delighted to tell you all that Chicago ended the year on a high, er, that's a high murder rate, of course! Shortly before Christmas, at a score of... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "And the Winner is . . ."

  

  Photo via Drudge It's called laughing all the way to the bank - with the keys in your pocket! And the Republicans, who are left looking like a bunch of politica... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• That Spy in the Sky Is, Er, Me, Actually!

  Yes, yes, once again I have gone up, up and away with the birds courtesy of my new best friend, Bill, and his wonderful Flight Simulator and if any of you lot... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY