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Volcanic eruptions

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on April 16, 2010

Almost there!

It’s surprising who’s been affected by this disaster, really:

The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano has closed airports and canceled flights in Europe,

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In the land of the blind …

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on April 15, 2010

This is pornography for the blind. Really!

… the one-eyed snake is king:

A pornographic magazine for the blind has been launched – complete with explicit

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How will greens cope?

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on April 14, 2010

We're just entering the city limits

About five minutes after the human race stopped burning yak pats for heating and cooking purposes, some bright spark started panicking about how

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De wordz iz hard, innit?

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on April 6, 2010

Mark was later surprised to find he'd misread the rules

Every so often, something so completely revolutionary, so paradigm-shifting comes along that you really just cannot imagine how society

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Suffer the children

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on March 20, 2010

Butter wouldn't melt in my mouth…

I’m straying somewhat outside my area of expertise here, but bear with me. Apparently, the genii responsible for all critical thought in this

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It’s 8 AM, do you know where your daughter is?

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on March 10, 2010

He's not a dolly, he's a very naughty boy!

It’s rare that I see something that makes me positively queasy, but this little snippet certainly managed it:

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Having kids at 14????

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by Gloria Smudd on March 4, 2010

Yeah but no but

A Booker Prize-winning novelist celebrated for her ‘ability to inhabit her characters’ has revealed in an interview that she considers 14-year old

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Back where he belongs?

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on March 4, 2010

A happy killer, earlier

There were many aspects of the Jamie Bulger killing that I found entirely incomprehensible: from the video footage showing the boys leading Jamie out of

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Saul on Sunday.

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by Saul – Cub reporter on February 28, 2010

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Much has been said recently about the antics of professional footballers. John Terry and his alleged affair with his team-mate Wayne Bridge’s former girlfriend. Ashley Cole and

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Saul on Sunday

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by Saul – Cub reporter on February 14, 2010

Pay Up Pompey, Pompey Pay Up.

Portsmouth FC dodged a bullet in the High Court this week; they have stumbled from crisis to crisis and are now on their fourth owner so

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There’s been plenty of smoke, hasn’t there?

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on February 9, 2010

'Ello, 'ello, 'ello … what's going on here then?

And so it has finally come to pass: after years of bleating about

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And Steve Jobs spake, saying

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on January 28, 2010

Who's going to surf the Internet with one of these?

You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is from Nokia, or

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There’s no going back, is there?

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on January 22, 2010

It's too late!

There are dozens of aphorisms of this nature, most of the entirely unsuitable for this gentle blog, which indicate that once something has happened, it’s pretty

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Haitian Divorce*

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on January 16, 2010

The natives are restless

I was fairly astonished to read in several newspapers that the victims of the earthquakes in Haiti were “getting angry” about the failure of aid

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There’s no true grit in a chaotic standstill

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by John Ward on January 9, 2010

Salt of the earth, apparently!

I’m intrigued by the thought of a chaotic standstill. I would’ve thought that chaos requires movement. There is a troupe called Circus of Chaos, and I

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Jingle Tills, Jingle Tills …

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on December 4, 2009

Because, of course, Christmas shopping is JUST like this, isn't it?

As someone who is reasonably widely travelled, it never fails to amaze me at how consumerist British society is. I

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Life

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on December 1, 2009

The Killer Fish of Caerbannog. Looks harmless, doesn't it?

Watching this wonderful documentary is a salutary lesson to us all: the natural world is filled with beauty and wonder, astonishing ingenuity

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Lifting the curtain, just a little

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on November 30, 2009

Lifting the curtain … just a little!

Under the circumstances, I suppose it’s nearly mandatory that I start off by saying, “Evening, possums!” I was as disappointed as

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