This is an interesting little example of the current attitude to anonymity in some sections of the community: a type of jacket with a hood and integrated face-mask has apparently become popular amongst “young people” in Britain (more).
Admittedly looking quite intimidating (see link), the jacket does not in fact come with a mind control device […]
Archive for December, 2007
least reassuring statement ever
13Dec07FYI:
[W]e have no current plans to accumulate massive armaments on our neighbours’ borders.
- regards, Russian Foreign Ministry.
Thanks for letting us know. Is it perchance time to stop devoting 100% of our resources to chasing criminally insane Arabic men around in the deserts of the world and start paying attention to Russia’s increasingly aggressive militarism and […]
religion is in the inverse of…
12Dec07The always interesting Possum Comitatus has some analysis of voting trends and social factors at the last federal election. Tucked away in there are some very interesting graphs about religion and its correlation to several other variables (about half way down, look for “Update 2“).
In particular, two relationships stand out:
atheism is proportional to growth […]
verballing 101
08Dec07The South Australian Government has gone ahead with legislation to ban David Hicks from selling his story. He’s still allowed to tell his story, but he’s not allowed to sell it. Lucky him. Presumably he’ll be able to find a job with no problems - after all, he was never convicted of anything by a […]
no ape in 08: i !heart huckabee
06Dec07FYI, Mike Huckabee, potential Republican presidential candidate and by extension potential President of the United States, has this to say about creationism (and the fact that he believes in it):
If you want to believe that you and your family came from apes, that’s fine. I’ll accept that. I just don’t happen to think that I […]
Confirming that the United States still regards the phrase “war on terror” to mean “license for continuing and willful insanity”, a lawyer representing the U.S. in a high profile case in England has indicated that the U.S. view is that the covert abduction of foreign nationals in order to bring them to America to face […]
