I’m relatively laying off US presidential politics this year, unlike in 2004 (and aren’t you glad?), but this sticks out: John McCain gambling serious money, and apparently considering casino execs his “friends”. Long before the point that he gambles with them and apparently wins, which is bad enough, you’ve got to wonder, haven’t you? They’re…
Read More stupidity taxJust to note that one issue of the Sun this week managed to rehash the much debunked pirates will knifecrime our asylums!!! story, yet again. It’s still drivel, of course; after all, here are those excitingly amoral Frenchmen, about to wire their pirates up to the ship’s power bus….or not. The latest lot are heading…
Read More Piracy Drivel WatchOK, someone’s left an armed UAV in the changing rooms. Is it you, Harrowell? No? Speak up? America? Turkey? Italy? Well, it would be interesting to ask somebody how many Predators the RAF possesses at the moment, compared to a few weeks ago. Relatedly, this is wrong: Pakistan, Afghanistan, nuclear proliferation and trans-national Islamic terrorism…
Read More Mr 10% meets the 27%ers up townThis is sick, but perversely reassuring. With the great miscarriages of justice of the 70s, the first phase was that the judge, the cops, the Home Office, and all right-thinking people agreed, and nobody took seriously that the victims might be innocent. This lasted a long, long time; but then we passed into the second…
Read More Big miscarriage of justice of our times, phase 2I’ve been blogging longer than the Rude Pundit.
Read More The shock of the old