Reminisce

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Paul

I got myself a little upset last night, listening to this piece from The Colbert Report. It wasn’t the latest inequities of the current administration that did it, nor the reminder of times in the US. No, it was the sweet, sweet pings of a TiVo in action. *sniff*

Disintegration

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Paul

Kevin Smith, of Clerks fame, tells us that Disintegration by The Cure is the best album ever. He cites no less an authority than Kyle Broflovski. These gentlemen are right – I’ve owned the album since its release in 1989, and it is one of a small handful that are always worth another listen.

Smoking

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Paul — 4 Comments ↓

There is a section of the religious community that believes that contraception using the pill is abortion, because it hasn’t yet been proven that it is impossible for the pill to block implantation of a fertilized egg. These people want the pill to be banned, therefore, along with all other abortion techniques. Now it looks like they’ll have to add smoking to their banned list of abortifacients. I’m happy to see smoking banned (except when I’m in a libertarian frame of mind), but I suspect this would be something of a hard sell.

Territories

Posted on November 24, 2006 by Paul — 4 Comments ↓

I had no idea that there is a place in North America that is French. Euros, overly-voweled language, garlic-encrusted baguettes (probably), the works. The islands of St Pierre and Miquelon were settled by the French back before people of the requisite paleness had laid claim to everything, and perhaps because it’s at the arse-end of nowhere (a very picturesque nowhere, it has to be said) it was never disputed by people who like their cheese like they like their democracy – petro-chemical based.

Your googlebombing dollars in action

Posted on November 23, 2006 by Paul

Here’s a little fun. Go to Google UK and search for ‘Poodle’ the first link is to the British Prime Minister’s official bio page.