Miscellaneous & funny

Having spent the weekend being whipped in the face by horizontal rain on the slopes of Snowdon with spectacular views stretching for tens of metres in the fog, it is time to relax.
First, here’s a nice fisking of the “Why We Need Socialized Medicine” YouTube video:

Secondly we see Hitler’s reaction on finding that Americans [...]

What the flippin’ heck!

From the Uncyclopedia article on Stephen Hawking (bold mine):
Since SIN was doing so well, other scientists like Isaac Newton, Ballsaac Newton, Bert Einstein, and Isaac’s little brother Jonathansaac “Johnny-boy” Newton decided to form an anti-SIN organization also known as SIN (SIN Is Nasty). Bert’s more famous brother Albert was asked to join SIN (the second [...]

Whole Foods, Bob Dylan and a Swastika

Some brouhaha in the US of A over the editorial by the CEO of Whole Foods that I linked to the other day and will link to again here. Some lefties are calling for a boycott of Whole Foods because their CEO has the temerity to suggest health care reform proposals that differ from those [...]

Miscellany: sperm, spending, speech & satire

Canada has only 33 sperm donors!
Communist levels of public spending in the UK (good table for comparing regions).
Opportunity to sign petition against totalitarian government efforts to ensure your kids are properly indoctrinated provide edukayshun 4 orl.
Speech code of the month at FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) is from Northern Illinois University where they [...]

Gates-y pearls (of wisdom)

A few interesting links related to the Gates-Obama-Crowley affair.
Jay Nordlinger discusses whether the my best friend is black argument should be necessary in a truly race-blind society.  On a related note,  here is an article Jonah Goldberg wrote 6 years ago on whether or not Orcs are racist.
Now that both the current POTUS and the [...]

Message from the Great Satan

Iowahawk presents an excellent parody of Barack Obama’s foreign policy stance:
Greetings. As president of United States — or, if you prefer, the Great Satan — I have have been following with keen interest the vigorous post-election debate and vibrant political dialogue which has been taking place in your great and noble Islamic Republic of Iran [...]

Young world leaders & politicians

A bit of fun to be had identifying these….

The BBC curls up and dyes

Just when you were beginning to think that Eurosceptics were all died-in-the-wool right-wingers, along comes Bob Crow.
Baaaa…..
UPDATE: They’ve corrected it now.