Rapidly disappearing into a cloud of his own self-importance he felt obliged to pontificate idiotically on world events. this would have been bearable if it were not for the fact that those self-same "tragic teenagers" have grown up to be movers and shakers in the media-verse and so he still finds ways of spreading banal idiocies to the masses.

Hi latest wheeze is to claim that wars are only ever fought by heterosexuals. Julie Bindel, a woman with whom I have never knowingly previously agreed, takes him to task.

Guardian - Julie Bindel - Sorry Morrissey, gay people can be warmongering fascists too

So Morrissey has said that wars are "heterosexual hobbies", and that: "If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men." In an amazing feat of generalisation he even said that "women don't go to war to kill other women".

Morrissey is in danger of relying on age-old stereotypes. Does he really think, like those daft gender essentialists, that women are innately gentle and men are big brutes out for a ruck? And gay men? Well, they just want to come round and wash your curtains before settling down to watch Cash in the Attic.

If I could launch just one experiment, it may well be that I temporarily banish all straight men from the planet for six months (don't worry - I would send you to planet Jock where you could drive around on quad bikes or in Porsches, and in the evening there would be poker and beer), and see if this peaceful utopia occurred. I was never a Greenham Common girl, but I have been on holidays with groups of women and I could have started my own war right there on the beach. At the infamous lesbian holiday resort of Lesbos, which more resembles Hackney-on-Sea once the sun goes down, I have seen some spectacular fallings-out between the sisters, almost resulting in WW3.

Telegraph blogs - Rowena Mason - Conservatives could finish third in the Eastleigh by-election

Senior Conservatives conceded that they could be pushed into third place by Ukip, despite the Prime Minister having pledged to hold a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.

I do hope so, as I said yesterday, it would trigger a very bloody civil war within the Tory party.

I must confess, that in the interests of sowing woe and despair amidst the Tories, if I lived in Eastleigh I'd hold my nose and vote UKIP.

keep to the Fen Causeway

Older people who have low expectations for a satisfying future may be more likely to live longer, healthier lives than those who see brighter days ahead, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association."Our findings revealed that being overly optimistic in predicting a better future was associated with a greater risk of disability and death within the following decade," said lead author Frieder R. Lang, PhD, of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. "Pessimism about the future may encourage people to live more carefully, taking health and safety precautions." The study was published online in the journal Psychology and Aging.

Time for a Smiths revival.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Kurzweil's overheated triumphalism aside (he seems determined to prove that careful thought is not necessary to be human by displaying a tremendous lack of care himself) ...

PWNED!

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

"The EIB is aware that a fake press release on its energy policy has been issued today by a so-called Philippe Wallace who is neither an employee of the EIB nor is he working under the authority of the EIB," the statement read. "The content of the release is incorrect and unauthorised, and the Bank will consider legal action against this misuse of the Bank's identity."

The fake press release, sent from the email address press@europeaninvestmentbank.org, falsely attributed quotes to EIB president Werner Hoyer which declared the bank would halt coal investment in order to help the EU achieve its climate objectives.

Financial institutions are under mounting pressure from campaigners to divest investments in carbon-intensive assets, amid fears such investments will lock Europe's energy infrastructure into a high-carbon model that makes it difficult to meet long-term emission reduction targets.

brilliant hit to the nerve!


It's a fine line between homage, parody, and consumer opportunism. Jess Walter

Members of Parliament are used to battling over policies and scoring political points against each other.

But now it emerges they are also engaged in a far more unusual competition - skipping.

Unflattering videos of senior politicans including Nick Clegg, George Osborne and Ed Balls have emerged showing them trying to outdo each other by completing as many skips as possible in two minutes.

The amusing clips show them taking part - with varying degrees of success - in an ongoing unofficial competition between MPs.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg are the ideal choice for Dennis Tito's Mars adventure wildcard voyage to the Red Planet, according to the entire population of the UK.

A team led by millionaire and former space tourist Dennis Tito plans to send a "tested couple" to Mars in a privately funded mission, which will explore the effects of lethal gamma radiation on the human torso.

The Inspiration Mars Foundation plans to start its one-and-a-half-year mission in January 2018, but Britons insist that the couple are `good to go' by October 2013 latest.

observe at 00.57 to 00.59 he channels musso, the jaw jut, followed by the double-elbow pump.

hmm. shades of chaplin.

It's a fine line between homage, parody, and consumer opportunism. Jess Walter

Oh, well.

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