Hello groinkers!
It’s time for my traditional round up of the best albums of 2006. This year I’ve chosen 32 albums, one for every tooth in my mad, mad head! The shortlist was around 70 so every album below is a winner, no matter where it is on the chart. Buy them all!
32. Spinform - Bryter [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Hussein meeting ally and fellow murderer Donald Rumsfled
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at a secure facility in northern Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
(Source: BBC News)
I’m against the death penalty. I think any society that punishes murder with murder is fundamentally illogical and flawed. Also, there is always the question of [...]
No snow yet… but maybe soon…
When you see TV programmes about ’80s music, inevitably, they’re shit.
Instead of interviewing people who were actually kids then (like me) or the musicians who were making the music, they wheel on the usual list of twentysomething rentagobs who waffle on about Wham! and Flock Of Seagulls’ haircuts. Thus, the casual viewer receives a distorted, [...]
“To initiate a war of aggression … is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany - 1946
Forget about people fiddling a few quid on the dole, when are [...]
FBI documents from 1947 show that government officials once believed the Christmas movie classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” was Communist propaganda. About the FBI memo titled “COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY,” Blogger Will Chen writes…
(Source: BoingBoing)
Read the full article, linked above for some yuletide giggles. Finished? Good.
What I find surprising is that the [...]
Goodbye, mate. Thanks for some of the funniest moments of my life.
More people in Britain think religion causes harm than believe it does good, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. It shows that an overwhelming majority see religion as a cause of division and tension - greatly outnumbering the smaller majority who also believe that it can be a force for good.
(Source: The Guardian)
Well, I [...]
Archbishop Williams
The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused the UK government of placing Christians in the Middle East at risk through its actions in Iraq.
Dr Rowan Williams, head of the Anglican church, said there had been a growing number of attacks on Christians.
Dr Williams told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme there was “no doubt” that life [...]
Oh tannenbaum! Clicky the piccy!
HO HO HO!