I got to watch the new Star Trek movie in a rather “romantic” date with Tiga and something caught my eye. I was not aware that Bernard Cumberbatch was set to play Khan Noonien Singh. I didn’t really notice this till my brother wondered why the “White Guy Was Called Khan”.
Category Archive: News
May 13 2013
Violence and Istanbul
Forty Six people were killed on Friday in Southern Turkey when two car bombs were detonated. It’s believed to be violence from Syria spilling over. And Turkey has squarely pointed the blame at Pro-Assad elements trying to “drag Turkey into the war”. It’s a sad event but hopefully International pressure can stop the spread of …
Apr 28 2013
Greg Ball – Torture
This kind of caught my attention this morning because I have been poking around the aftermath of the various political talking heads out there. And Greg Ball caught my eye with his spectacularly bad idea.
Apr 20 2013
Geography
A fair few Americans were labouring under the assumption that “Cechnya” is the “Czech Republic” on the Twitters… The Czech Republic is famous for being in the USSR and leaving the USSR. Chechnya is famous for being in Russia and “not wanting to be in Russia”. Simples…
Apr 19 2013
Where I Shut Up and Apologise
Sunil Triparthi is a student from Brown University from Pennsylvania. He has been missing since the 16th of March. His family are distraught and looking for him. He left his belongings and behind and has been missing with the last images of him leaving his apartment. He left a vague note and people indicate that …
Apr 18 2013
Mentiroso!
In the wake of any tragedy come the gong bangers who try and push through political change based on the feelings that are running high after the tragedy. Some of it is common sense like “fucking gun control” (because if your people require guns to feel safe then it’s indicative of a society that has …
Apr 18 2013
Lest We Forget
Apparently a couple of people were kicked off a plane in the USA because they were speaking Arabic. And thus rises the spectre of racial profiling. And as usual the comments of “They should Speak English! This is America! You shouldn’t speak foreign languages here” abound around this story. And it pains me to remind …
Apr 17 2013
Stories about Boston that Simply Are Not True
I have one retraction to print. Yesterday I wrote an article dealing with Mike Adams and the vulture brigade circling the tragedy of Boston to twist it to their own purpose and to flog the fantasy of oppression and secret conspiracies. I have to retract the notion that there was a third bomb. There was in …
Apr 17 2013
Vulture Brigade
There is a tendency among a lot of people who cannot understand a tragedy to utilise it to strengthen their delusional world view. The Boston Marathon Attack has had these “fine” outstanding individuals come boiling out of the woodwork. They cannot accept any such attack without a nefarious plot (well more nefarious than kill random …
Apr 16 2013
Interesting Observation
So I was watching the British Coverage (BBC) of the Boston Marathon Bombings and noticed something interesting. Compared to the relative “sterility” of terrorism coverage in the USA this one is a lot more “real”. While the Hyderabad attacks had images of people wounded being treated, the American papers had relatively tame images. It’s actually …
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