Toadfish Monastery

Companion kit for Monty Python's holy hand grenade, squaddies for the use of.

Jesus overturned the money-lenders stalls, rational humanist icons like Dr Who  get seriously angry regularly. Is civility always appropriate?

(Usual rules. No kicking, biting, gouging or parliamentary/congressional language).

I was shocked.

Have I got the U.S. debate right?

You don't want to nationalize health care but you do want to nationalize Stephen Hawking so we don't kill him off?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/11/damian-mcbride-forced-to-quit

Funny, I always thought that the spin bubble would burst in the Blair years, but like the economic one it stagggered on a bit longer

So how exactly will Brown defend invented sexual slurs about a woman whose young son has just died? Will he still go for the "rogue" solution, given who was apparently on the cc list?

How to complain.

Here

BBC2 20:05 BoJo* presents "After Rome: Holy War and Conquest"

Part 1 of 2 part series covering the "simmering mutual antipathy" between Jews/Muslims/Christians since the collapse of Rome. Looks sort of interesting from the blurb.


* Official Tory approved abbreviation for Boris Johnson, who presented this before taking over the running of that city down south somewhere.

Einstein and Eddington on BBC2 tonights looks interesting...

Problems with original sin 101.

Even horses are getting in on the leg act.

Fighting it out on the buses.

London mayor backs Obama.

With Boris on his side, what could go wrong? 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7668655.stm

How weird is it that it usually takes the unelected to preserve our liberties?

here

Ancient fertility symbol  . Everyone knows it was made after a drunken night in the pub in the early 1600s, to piss off the puritans and help the tourist T-smock industry.

Damn.

Readallaboutit.

Look who we might have to let in.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/22/scope.project/index.html

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At least it explains why he didn't think God plays dice.