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because the corridors of power - they’re an ocean away!
29 August 2008

one of the unfortunate consequences of living in the fifty-first state of america is that we have to suffer the ball-grinding tedium that goes along with - not one but two! - general election campaigns. as well as watching the snivelling antics of our own bunch of cretins, we also have [...]

‘political correctness’ - meet ‘barrel-scraping’
21 March 2008

it takes a special kind of fuckwitt to come up with a programme idea which combines elements of unoriginality, political-correctness and americanisation in such a haddock-stinking way that i truly thought this was an early april fool’s joke, when i stumbled upon it on the BBC’s website.
for what you are looking at here, dear reader, [...]

question marks
21 March 2008

laying into the advertising industry is a bit like kicking a dead man with two sets of knackers - not much of a challenge and plenty to aim for. but, what the hell. it’s the easter holidays and i’m entitled to take things easy. so today, children let’s contemplate one of the [...]