THE PERILS OF DICTIONARY TRANSLATION

Can anyone figure out what went wrong here?

I WANT TO LIVE ON AN ABSTRACT PLANE

NEVER LET URI GELLER OFF THE HOOK

I have noticed him appearing a lot again in the last couple of years. That being so, this video of James Randi showing him up should appear again as often as possible. Below is a Fry & Laurie parody of the same thing…  

I INTERVIEWED MICHAEL ALBERT

I interviewed Michael Albert. It is available now over at Bella Caledonia.

USA SECOND AGAIN

Very busy at the moment so this is an ‘in case you missed these’ post. Firstly, a quick look at some statistics. These are for acceptance of evolution in certain countries. Yes, that is the USA beaten into second place by Turkey. I am sure right now across the USA thousands of loons are working [...]

APE & ESSENCE

I’ve been reading Aldous Huxley’s Ape & Essence recently. Quite an unusual book to say the least but worth the effort. Given that it was published in 1949 I think you could say he was ahead of the game here… “‘These wretched slaves of wheels and ledgers began to congratulate themselves on being the Conquerors [...]

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT

The idea that sport is “war minus the shooting” has been written about too much but the Italy V Serbia match that was abandoned in midweek throws up an interesting question. In case you don’t know what happened a group of Serbian right-wing bigoted thugs rioted outside the ground and inside. They also proceeded to [...]

PABLO PICASSO WAS NEVER CALLED AN ASSHOLE

BBC SHOWS OVERWHELMING SYMPATHY

So imagine, a bomb has gone off in a UK army base. 18 people were killed. The Ministry of Defence says that it was an accidental explosion in a munitions store. Would the BBC produce the following report…? LATEST: Eighteen members of the UK’s elite forces die in an ‘accidental’ blast at an army base [...]

HISTORY FIGHTS

I am not one to defend the Scotsman (newspaper) but check out these two headlines for the same story in Scotland’s 2 biggest biggest broadsheets. The first is from the Herald and the second is from the Scotsman… £5m centre at Bannockburn to cash in on Scots history or New centre aims to recapture experience [...]