No... sorry... I can't do it. Today's news broadcasts deliver good news for a change, but the real headline has to be...

the first FULL trailer for CAPTAIN AMERICA - THE WINTER SOLDIER

- and Blockbuster Season 2014 gets its first salvo in early.

In other news... Following on from last night...

The Grangemouth petrochemical plant is staying open ( Read more... )

There's been quite a substantial industrial dispute in Scotland this past week or so, and it could all be coming to a head. It looks, however, as though someone found some common sense, and decided that their job, and the jobs of the colleagues, were way more important than trying to "stick it to The Man" - their bosses, and the government - when ( Read more... )

A few things have come to my attention over the last week, but I never got round to commenting on them. So, here goes...

ITEM! The death of a child is a horrible thing, and the murder of a child perhaps the greatest crime there is, that an individual can commit. Society wants to do something to at least try and prevent such things from happening ( Read more... )

Just thinking that any attempts to disrupt Maggie Thatcher's funeral this time next week would not go down so well. If anything, it would show that the "socialists" have no respect for the dead, and their families. Go on and have a street-party, losers, but go no further, 'cause I'm sure some police officers will have very clear instructions on ( Read more... )

The teams are being introduced as I write (right now Cameroon and Canada), and the whole opening ceremony for the Olympics has been a pretty impressive show, avoiding the predictable and providing some memorable scenes - a countryside replaced by industry to produce a fifth red-hot Olympic ring in particular. I'm hoping all the nay-sayers have been ( Read more... )

ITEM! "Japanese "Avengers" Trailer Showcases Hawkeye, Helicarrier"

Okay, they can call the movie "Fuzzy Bunny-Boo-Boo and The Search For The Singing Cupcake" for all I care. It rocks TOO DAMN MUCH to get pissed off over a title change.

ITEM! Why the hell is John Carter getting such a hard time? Yes, the trailer campaign wasn't exactly stellar, ( Read more... )

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The news can be pretty damned tedious these days, with the micro-analysis of every twist and turn in the economic woes of the world, and in particular Europe. Today, a dash of pee in the already sour yoghurt, as the UK become the European "supreme bastard" for messing up their treaty changes - but it really does seem as though someone (*cough* ( Read more... )

I'm really pleased to see that Londoners have come forward to start to reclaim their streets as "Riotwombles". In almost the same breath, I'm deeply saddened by the pathetic excuses, the apologists crying "unemployment", "lack of social mobility", "the widening gap between rich and poor", and "the police don't care 'cos we is black"...

These are ( Read more... )