
The most terrifying photo of the 2016 presidential elections so far
I am well and truly speechless. Doesn’t anyone on the campaign media team look after these things?
Read MoreI am well and truly speechless. Doesn’t anyone on the campaign media team look after these things?
Read MoreEveryone’s making history these days. Come November, America might have the first female President, hard on the heels of the first African-American President. The US certainly has the first female …
Read MoreYoung kids come to me on the street these days and ask: “Hey, Arthur, you were born and grew up in a communist country, didn’t you? So tell us, does …
Read MoreThere is one thing I don’t like about Trump. Actually, there are a few; his policies, such as they are, which for most part don’t resemble the conservative and classical …
Read MoreHow the hell, in a nation of 320 million, did we end up with these four anti-superhero losers as the last ones standing in the 2016 election contest? …
Read MoreAs a rule I never assume that celebrities are necessarily smart and/or sane, but once in a while a story pops up on the news that makes even me go …
Read MoreThis election campaign is only going to get more serious the closer to November we get. Which means Trump will become even more unbearable, which means you will feel obliged …
Read MoreWell, maybe not. I hate it when the headline is more exciting than the story itself. Like this one: “North Korea says Trump isn’t screwy at all, a wise choice …
Read MoreI woke up this morning to the number one celebrity story in the news being Kate Beckinsale recounting how the director Michael Bay was an ass to her during and …
Read MoreI have been born in a wrong place at a wrong time, and on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, so I can’t paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen’s immortal “oh snap†…
Read MoreJust in case you’re still wondering what is causing the Donald Trump phenomenon, you could do worse than read any of Michael Lewis’ recent books. Not that people who support …
Read MorePresident Obama visited Hiroshima the other day, and to his credit he didn’t apologise for dropping the bomb. He didn’t drop the bomb himself, of course. That was President Truman, …
Read MoreThey were hoping to take the island in four days. After all, there was not much to take, just an expanse of bleached coral, some 10 km long and 1.5 …
Read MoreToday’s Daily Outrage courtesy of students at Oberlin College, Ohio, the institution renowned as the first in the nation (in 1835) to open admission to women and all races: “A …
Read MoreWant to know why Trump is about to become the Republican nominee and why Bernie is almost the Democrat nominee (though is unlikely to get there in the end)? Thanks …
Read MoreHe might be a tomatohead but he’s our tomatohead – and he’s right. Unless you have been in a quarantine yourself for the past few months, I’m sure you’re familiar …
Read MoreI miss the ’90s. I never thought I would say that, but there it is. As a Gen X, I’m a child of the ’80s, albeit as experienced on the …
Read MoreThe dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe, Tom Wolfe observed a long time ago. Or at least that used …
Read MoreSometime later today I will finish reading Walter Isaacson’s “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution”, his bigger picture follow up to the …
Read MoreThanks to the 2016 GOP presidential primaries I have been exposed to many new concepts and ideas, most of which I could have easily done without. I’m thinking alt-right, cuckservatism, …
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