We’ve heard from the Boss again.
Anna has been back in hospital for a couple of days for a follow-up, and should be back home early next week.
Anna’s tumour taken out a couple of weeks ago has been analysed in
Continue reading →Monthly Archives: August 2011
Where did you get that hat?
Opposing the death penalty
The Capital Punishment debate is not one of your typical emotion vs reason jousts that seem to be fought on a frequent basis in this day and age. While the argument against the death penalty (with which
Continue reading →Guido Fawkes on the Death Penalty
Following the Coalition’s launch of an overhauled E-Petitions facility, with the potential of petitions with 100,000 signatures being debated in the House of Commons.
Guido Fawkes has been promoting a campaign to Continue reading →
Going downhill very quickly
After a couple of days of mainly serious postings on Anna Raccoon, this video is just what it says on the tin.
It is not recommended for consumption with your dinner.
Continue reading →Coming for the Anarchists
“The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common
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Fear of Raccoons
Who’s scared of the Raccoon?
Many people have phobias. The phobia about the number 13 is Triskaidekaphobia whilst Friday the 13 is Paraskevidekatriaphobia. In Asian countries it isn’t 13 that’s an unlucky number but 4 and it
Continue reading →Professional Suicide and ‘I want to be alone’.
I like people who do things properly, put the research into the project, take their time, check everything out thoroughly – and then execute their task with skill and aplomb.
Thus I find Richard Handl an
Continue reading →Echoes of Amy Winehouse
This post is a first guest article from Ellee Seymour, who blogs at elleeseymour.com.
I’m playing Amy’s poignant Back to Black as I write this.
We have read
Continue reading →Simple Pieman
Simple Pieman met a newsman,
Following a dare,
Says Simple Pieman to the newsman,
For your views, I do not care.
Says the newsman to Simple Pieman,
Allow my wife to show you how;
To land a pretty punch,
– and on the floor you cower.
Simple
Continue reading →Jason Owen – Capital Punishment Icon?
If there is a simple visual answer to the capital punishment conundrum, then it will emerge – in the shape of Jason Owen – blinking into the daylight on this coming Friday
Continue reading →And why did you miss Stuart Broad’s Hat-trick?
In the Trent Bridge Test Match, Stuart Broad scored took (*) a hat-trick on the way to bowling figures of 5 wickets for zero runs.
(*) I was clean bowled by
Continue reading →Ten Reasons against the Death Penalty
1 Timothy Evans – Executed on 9/3/1950 for killing his daughter at 10 Rillington Place. His neighbour John Reginald Halliday Christie was executed on 15/7/1953 for the crime after being found to be a
Continue reading →Defective Fault Lines
The idea of accepting personal responsibility for anything seems to have gone the same way as straw hat and white gloves with a summer dress, an anachronism that we barely remember and cannot begin to conjure up
Continue reading →Potted Twitter
I have been a little distracted from blogging over the past week by matters temporal, but have been keeping my eye on the lawless, crazy and often profane and sometimes witty World of Twitter. Below is a random selection of those tweets
Continue reading →Money for Nothing
On Friday I received a text which I’m sure many of you will also have received:
“Due to a new legislation, those struggling with debt can apply to have it written off. For free information reply
Continue reading →Competition – Write the Rules.
This will be fun!
NUJ members at the BBC have today started a second 24 hour strike action against compulsory redundancies.
A work to rule will start when the BBC
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