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High holidays: the Menorah bong for a happy Hanukkah

 

Happy Hanukah!

 

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Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments


The 6 new perverted rules of Islam that corrupt and kill

 

Qanta Ahmed says the slaughter in Paris was an attack on Islam. The jihadis are new form to totalitarianism:

 
To assert that this Islamism is un-Islamic is not a kneejerk response … (read more)

Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments


Paris massacre: far-right bigot Marine le Pen becomes a statesman

Le Ben ‘Je ne suis pas Charlie’

The hideous far-right politico Marine le Pen looks at the massacre in Paris and sees her chance to become a credible … (read more)

Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Politicians, Reviews | 0 Comments


Airport security is more theatrical than real

 

What happens are airport security? The Economist takes a look at the panto;
The growing certainty that the mid-air destruction of a Metrojet airliner flying from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg was … (read more)

Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments


Paris: diversity, pluralism and Trump’s lazy rhetoric

 

Kenan Malik looks at the massacre in Paris in “AFTER PARIS”. The killers slaughtered people at the Jewish-owned Bataclan theatre. They hit the Stade de France, where ‘Les Bleus’ were playing.
What the terrorists despised, … (read more)

Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Politicians, Reviews | 0 Comments


Transfer balls: Manchester United sign Robben and Muller but Kroos gets lost

Transfer balls: The Sunday Mirror says Manchester United are looking to make a move for Bayern Munich winger Arjen Robben.

Apparently, Robben is “at war” with team-mate Robert Lewandowski.

Robben will be 32 in January.

Why would he … (read more)

Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments


Pastafarian wins right to wear colander on her head for driving licence photo

 

The US Registry of Motor Vehicles says Massachusetts woman Lindsay Miller can, as a Pastafarian, wear a colander on her head on her licence photo. The RMV only allows drivers to wear hats … (read more)

Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments


Chelsea balls: Costa sold, Falcao leaves, Griezmann arrives

 

Transfer balls: The Sunday Mirror says Chelsea are ready to sell Diego Costa, 27.

The paper says Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho would have sold Costa last summer had he been able to find a replacement.

Andy Dunn … (read more)

Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments


Madeleine McCann: the Buzzfeed years

 

Madeleine McCann: a look at reporting on the missing child.

On November 7th, the Sun and Mirror had news.

Mirror: “Gerry and Kate McCann reveal the reasons why they miss Maddie”

Well, she’s their … (read more)

Posted: 14th, November 2015 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | 0 Comments


Transfer balls: Real Madrid ‘steal’ Chelsea’s Eden Hazard

Real Madrid have recommenced their tapping up for Chelsea’s Eden Hazard. Real coach Zinedine Zidane tells media:
“Do I see him going to Real Madrid ? Ask someone else. I love the … (read more)

Posted: 14th, November 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments


Guardian criticises Gates Foundation for helping ‘for-profit companies’; takes Bill Gates’ money

 

Linsey McGoey has been writing about The Bill and Melina Gates Foundation for the Guardian. The article begins with a rather ghoulish view that the charity would be better were … (read more)

Posted: 14th, November 2015 | In: Money, Reviews | 0 Comments


Paris: Wikileaks legitimises mass murder and Islamophobia update

 

Mass murder in Paris. And WikiLeaks attempts to make a point:

If we are all Charlie Hebdo – and we should be; we must be – then this kind of balls by … (read more)

Posted: 14th, November 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | 1 Comment


Vive La France!

 

Paris mourns. And so should we all.

 

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Posted: 14th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments


Transfer balls: Ronaldo to Chelsea but Manchester United have his pension book

Transfer balls: the Sun leads its sports section with news that Manchester United are sure – dead sure – of signing Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid. In an “exclusive”, Neil … (read more)

Posted: 13th, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments


Footballer investigated for barking at police attack dog

 

Oakland Raiders player Ray-Ray Armstrong is accused of barking at a police dog and pounding his chest. Police stepped in after Armstrong, 24, allegedly lifted his top and woof-woofed in the direction of … (read more)

Posted: 12th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments


Caitlyn Jenner mansplains womanhood to women

 

Caitlyn Jenner is telling Buzzfeed of “The Moment She Felt Most Proud To Be A Woman In 2015”.

Jenner, patriarch of the Jenner-Kardashian clan, is now an estranged matriach of that same … (read more)

Posted: 12th, November 2015 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | 0 Comments


England lost Fifa 2018 because Russia paid more And Seb Coe was upwind

The Sun says FA Chairman Greg Dyke ‘fears a string of World Cups have been awarded with a “pile of bungs”‘.

But doesn’t every country bidding to host the World Cup … (read more)

Posted: 11th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments


Tesco seeks a Christmas Tree light untangler

HELP!

 

Former boy scouts, listen up. Your skills are needed. Tesco is hiring “Christmas Light Untanglers”. If you are “able to untangle 3 meters of Christmas lights in … (read more)

Posted: 11th, November 2015 | In: Money, Reviews | 0 Comments


Older couple helps young woman pay attention to Donald Trump (Vine)

 

The multi-tasking woman is reading Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine.

Jacket copy (via Xeni Jardin):
Claudia Rankine’s bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily … (read more)

Posted: 11th, November 2015 | In: Politicians, Reviews | 0 Comments


Flounce: how to get not bad at something in just 5 hours

Mike Boyd looked at Malcolm Gladwell’s rule that 10,000 of practice gets you good at something – and perhaps read Matthew Syed’s book Bounce on how nurture beats nature – and looked at … (read more)

Posted: 11th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments


Transfer balls: Chelsea chase ‘Arsenal’ striker Higuain

Transfer Balls: the Mirror says Chelsea are keen on Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuain.

Any move leaves “bad boy striker Diego Costa fighting for his Chelsea future”.

But he’s not fighting. He’s a bit limp. He’s … (read more)

Posted: 10th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments


Welsh parents banned from London after sex at Westfield in front of their children

 

We join the action as pregnant Akeela Ali, 25, is carrying out a ‘sex act’ on her husband Fahad Bilal, 26. Their children aged three and five are close by, running … (read more)

Posted: 10th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments


Chelsea balls: Brendan Rodgers arrives via Tube (Christian Gross nowhere)

Brendan Rodgers has been “spotted in London”. The Mirror sees the photos and ads that the former Liverpool manager’s trip to the big city comes “as rumours of return to … (read more)

Posted: 10th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments


Arsenal balls: Wenger says he’s a Gunner until he dies

Arsenal PSG

The Mirror leads with news that Paris Saint-Germain are “anxious” to hire Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager.

Darren Lewis says PSG have Wenger on a shortlist. Other … (read more)

Posted: 10th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments