Why not
elf yourself?
Sweden’s mild Winter is doing
dreadful things to gingerbread houses. A Swedish reviewer is in some bother for
reviewing a book not yet written.
The President of Peru thinks coca leaves
go great in salad.
Demotivation, the new craze in management. My
favourite is: Consulting: If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
Problems
with proof in mathematics.
About
the cave art of Western Europe: The glories of ancient Rome and Greece were but a blip compared to the great age of cave painting, which began about 32,000 years ago and lasted for roughly 20,000 years
Folk with low self-esteem apparently
tend not to like twists at the end of mystery novels.
About the Tory tradition
of modernising conservatism: Someone described a libertarian as being someone in favour of childless immortals. My personal and autobiographical definition of conservatism is a free marketeer with children
New York rated
world’s politest city. The chances of a woman being raped in Oslo
are now much higher than in New York. The requisite offensively stupid academic has already opined on the issue: Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes … Norwegian women must realize that we live in a Multicultural society and adapt themselves to it.”
So, you’re Britain’s most wanted man after stabbing and killing a policewoman. What do you do? Put on a niqab (full veil), pretend to be your sister
and flee the country, leaving lots of bureaucrats to explain why it wasn’t their fault, no sirree.
More.
Guardian readers
are less likely to insulate their homes than readers of other newspapers. If one has the right attitudes, actions are much less important? The Guardian continues to be
the haven for the compassionate class: every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.. It
does not even make a certain brutal sense: According to the recent Stern report, worldwide aviation produces 1.6 per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions. (I believe that should read “by humans”.) About
all that hysteria.
About why laws against Holocaust denial
are a bad idea. About
the Irving case. About
fighting lies with truth. Plans to put Holocaust documents
online in various languages including Arabic. About
the hugely varied role of Arabs in the Holocaust and Axis persecutions of Jews.
An immigrant Russian Jew gay porn star and director
has a few comments about Jimmy Carter’s latest book.
Zimbabwe’s suffering
under Mugabe. And yes, it was better off as Rhodesia under
Ian Smith: probably the most unmentionable political truth of our time--a black Zimbabwean newspaper columnist got himself into some trouble a few years ago writing come back Ian Smith, all is forgiven: things have go much worse since then. (Of course, saying white minority rule was better than that of a kleptocratic dictator slowly starving much of his country to death is not exactly setting a high benchmark. And the contrast with South Africa makes Mugabe’s performance seem even more vile.)