Welcome to the true face of war. When you start something as nightmarish as war, you open up the inevitability of atrocities, dead on all sides, the murder of innocents and the death of the souls of the perpetrators. Wikileaks has just released video of the massacre of a dozen Iraqi civilians that shows the […]
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Crikey! Well, Boris. It’s big. And it’s red. It certainly gets my attention. No more TV reception worries for you. Were you trying for Tatlin’s Tower, that revolutionary celebration of modernism? Only ninety-odd years too late. And I’m not sure the Bolsheviks, whose 1917 victory it was conceived to commemorate, are your cup of cha.
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This made me very sad. Livin’ La Vida LocaEven Chinese pirates fall for Ricky In honour of Ricky Martin’s big announcement this week, we thought we should celebrate with our first three stories on him. This was from February 2000: “Thirteen Chinese pirates staggered drunkenly to their deaths this week, singing a Ricky Martin song.
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This made me very sad. Livin’ La Vida LocaEven Chinese pirates fall for Ricky In honour of Ricky Martin’s big announcement this week, we thought we should celebrate with our first three stories on him. This was from February 2000: “Thirteen Chinese pirates staggered drunkenly to their deaths this week, singing a Ricky Martin song.
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Sometimes a thing is true even if George Orwell says it’s true. Old grudges die hard; Stalinists still hate George (not Galloway) while ‘decents’ claim him for their own. My fellow blogging longlister in the Orwell Prize, Dave Osler, has posted a defence of Gorgeous. And I guess that’s my cue to do likewise with
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Has anyone else stumbled across the Bravo cable TV show, 1,000 Ways To Die? It’s a sweet little offering from the US, re-enacting the weirdest ways people have met their end — usually prime contenders for the Darwin Awards. I’m sitting here squirming having just watched the fate of the scumbag robber who stole groceries
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