"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in"
(Leonard Cohen)
"Ignore all proffered rules and create your own, suitable for what you want to say"
(Michael Moorcock)
"Look for your own. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings."
(Andre Gide)

"I want my place, my own place, my true place in the world, my proper sphere, my thing which Nature intended me to perform when she fashioned me thus awry, and which I have vainly sought all my life-time."
(Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
(Franz Kafka)
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated"
(John Donne)
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
(Robert J. Hanlon)
"Life is beautiful, but the world is hell"
(Harold Pinter)

Thursday, May 20, 2010

An Enemy To Be Treated Seriously


EXTRACT: "There is nothing to indicate that political instability or crisis is “inherent” to coalition governments - let alone the actual Cameron-Clegg government that stands before us. Equally dubious is the notion that the new government lacks any “credible” mandate for its policies and programme. Unfortunate though it is, the constant, propagandising stream of commentary about acting in the ‘national interest’ does have a certain popularity - if only on the level of ‘Why don’t you stop squabbling like schoolchildren and muck in together?’ It is a common enough sentiment. In fact there is a danger that the first tranche of cuts could receive a definite level of support from the population."
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Making the Case for Zionism


From the Wall Street Journal's 'pictures of the week' for the past week - "FACING A CROWD: A Palestinian woman whose house has been occupied by Jewish settlers argued with Israelis who came to celebrate Jerusalem Day in the mainly Arab neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, Wednesday." And, remember, these evictions & occupations are underwritten and backed by the Israeli government.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Thursday, May 13, 2010

How to Make a Molecular Nanobot


Easy.

Slippery Sands

Young and Zealous

A Public Service Annoucement


Cardinal's Top Tip


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From the Tiny to the Statistically Insignificant



EXTRACT: "Engels famously remarked that you can compare election results to a thermometer, one capable of registering the political temperature amongst the working class. If that is the case, then the weather out there is near Arctic. Looking at the electoral statistics for the various left-of-Labour groups makes this more than clear. With very few exceptions every seat that had been contested by a far-left candidate in 2005 saw a marked decline in vote share on May 6. That is, most were not even able to reach the traditional 1%-2% range of votes that the non-mad or non-eccentric sections of the far left have normally and regularly received in the past. Or, to put it even more brutally, the far-left votes have gone from the very small or tiny to the statistically insignificant".
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Religious Memes Ate My Brain!!


They're Here


Defend Dorota Rabczewska (Doda)!


Unbelievably - and monstrously - Warsaw prosecutor's office has charged Polish pop-star, Dorota Rabczewska (aka Doda), with the 'crime' of "offending religious sensibilities". Why? Just for remarking in a year-ago television interview that she believed more in dinosaurs than she did in the Bible because "it is hard to believe in something written by people who drank too much wine and smoked herbal cigarettes". If convicted, she faces up to two years in prison under Poland's strict blasphemy laws. Read more here, here and here.

Self-Portrait (sort of)


The Weight of Free Speech


Sunday, May 09, 2010

"Ubu Imperator" (Max Ernst, 1923)


More God Comics


 

Son of God Comics


Denying Cheese

Fireside Angel (The Truimph of Surrealism) [Max Ernst, 1937]


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Let's Talk About Cheese

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Jaded Palace of Sin


Dancer #3


Imaginary Friends


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Satan Says #2


Thursday, May 06, 2010

If More Businesses Were Like Goldman Sachs


They ALL Scapegoat Migrants


EXTRACT: Now, we are obliged to point out that Duffy’s remark about “flocking” eastern Europeans did indeed express bigotry or, put another way, chauvinist prejudice. Perhaps they were even reminiscent, you could argue, of Margaret Thatcher’s infamous January 1978 World in action interview, where she talked about how the British people are “afraid” that the country might be “swamped by people with a different culture” - thus undercutting electoral support for the then resurgent National Front. But the plain fact of the matter is that Duffy’s comments differ in no essential way from Brown’s own “British jobs for British workers”. Rather, in reality he helped to sow bigoted ideas, along with all the other mainstream politicians who have promised to ‘get tough on the illegals’ - are we supposed to forget the spectacle of Brown and David Cameron during the leaders’ debate rounding on Nick Clegg in order to denounce the Liberal Democrats’ proposal to offer an amnesty to some illegal migrants? Not that the ‘nice’ Nick Clegg would behave any differently from his two rivals if he were to find himself in a governmental position. Over the years we have witnessed a grotesque Dutch auction of bourgeois politicians outbidding each other in demanding stricter and stricter controls over immigration, Gordon Brown being no exception".
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The Dancer #2


God Comics


Monday, May 03, 2010

The Blacknauts

"In an alternate-history terraformed Mars, a young milquetoast office drone named Danny O'Dare stumbles across an encrypted data feed which spurs him into conflict with a profit-obsessed corporation, with the help of a bookish female scholar with mousy brown hair and her cleavage, culminating in eternal love professed without irony."
TO BE CONTINUED

He Appears to Us in Mysterious Ways


Things Were Different In My Day