As the Orange Menace in the US runs out of ways to lose the election (how many times was that by now, counting all the law suits, 50?) but damage his country that much further, his cousin-in-malice-and-bad-hair keeps piling up ways to make satirists weep because they'd never get away with this stuff if they'd invented it. Gunships against French ( Read more... )

Apropos the day, the days. The jumping of the cliff (of Dover). I don't have anything smart and/or consoling in me. Hence, links to more eloquent people.

Requiem for a dream

On loathing Rees-Moog

John Le Carré: It's breaking my heart, a speech held when receiving the Olaf-Palme-Award, in which he says: I’m not just a remainer. I’m a European ( Read more... )

Re: British politics... so, I hear the sequel to Into the Spidervers will be titled Spiderwoman: Judgment DayTruly, it was a glorious day yesterday, but today the depressing guess has grown in me that the horror clowns on both sides of the Atlantic will just brazen it out. In the US, the Right have become so fanatic and radicalized that they seem ( Read more... )

In Star Trek: TNG's sixth season, there's an episode called Tapestry which early on has a scene where Picard has a near-death experience, Q shows up and says "welcome to the afterlife, Jean-Luc. You're dead. And I'm God". To which my favourite Captain replies that Q is not, because "the universe isn't that badly designed ( Read more... )

So let me get this straight: during the recent local elections in Great Britain, all parties with a pro Brexit agenda promoted by their leadership - The Tories, Labour and Ukip, and isn't that a combination that should never have happened - suffered heavy losses, while the parties with a clear pro-Remain, anti-Brexit attitude like the Lib Dems and ( Read more... )

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Since today is not-at-all-Brexit day, I want to extend my sympathies (again) to any and all citizens of the United Kingdom. Also to the writers of the latest James Bond movie, a work in progress titled after a Karl May character. (No really, they're calling it Shatterhand.) I just don't see how any Bond villain, no matter whether or the traditional ( Read more... )

Apparantly British MPs have some kind of competition going on wherein every week, one of them must be Basil Fawlty in The Germans? With the latest entry being the one from Shropshire, who apparently never heard of the fact Britain got far more monetary aid from the Marshall Plan than West Germany did. (East Germany, for obvious reasons, got nothing ( Read more... )

Which was an okay adventure for our gang, and I'm amused about how Sheffield is the new London in terms of DW, but what I'll really remember about this special is the absolutely perfect Brexit gag.

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The Turkish Minister of foreign affairs claims Individual 1 has promised to extradite Gülen to Turkey. While anything the Erdogan government claims, especially re: the attempted coup, is worth some scepticism, I could believe this one, since the Orange Menace loves autocrats and never understood all the bother raised a bit of torture there and ( Read more... )