Meandering Vaguely Around Timnah

The Grey Lady reveals itself as one of the finest fanfic sites of the current era as it hungrily fantasizes about war between Israel and Iran. Were I a pessimist, I would perhaps view this as laying the groundwork, but I have lately been feeling an unseemly sort of optimism, and all this jingoism toward Iran is sounding increasingly impotent and fantastical. I say this with full knowledge that we are making cross-border incursions and doing drone strikes and plotting assassinations. Nevertheless, the scifi quality of our major propaganda organs’ coverage of the future war suggests that we are stymied, that low-level conflict is the best we can manage.

The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:59:05 -0500

The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal

Alt Text: Handy Rules for the Creation of Lethal Mutants

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:43:42 -0500

Alt Text: Handy Rules for the Creation of Lethal Mutants

BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:58:38 -0500

BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep

Mark Steel: Any old excuse to invade Iran - The Independent

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:58:37 -0500

Mark Steel: Any old excuse to invade Iran - The Independent

The Mystery of Quantitive Easing

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:43:25 -0500

The Mystery of Quantitive Easing:

With £350 billion we could have built an enormous amount of social housing on brownfield sites, converted derelict high streets into housing, built the Severn barrage and a high speed rail link from London to Aberdeen and still have had change. We could have reopened the steel industry to do it. a thousand manufacturing firms could have been re-tooled. Millions could have been employed. The entire logic of economic depression could have been turned around.

Instead we gave more cash to the bankers.