Ex-servicemen forget about Remembrance Sunday
It has long been reported that the numbers of ex-servicemen who attend Remembrance Sunday events are falling. Now it appears that many of them are simply forgetting to turn up. We asked some of them to try to understand why. Geoff De'ath, 81, of M...
Read full storyA Thanksgiving Editorial: In Praise of the Common Turkey
As just about all educated people know, turkeys are among the smartest animals on the planet, perhaps in the galaxy. If they were mammals instead of birds, they would, in fact, be the smartest animals on the planet. (For some reason, known only to theoretical physicists, bird neural DNA seems to suffer from "leakage," also known as accelerated entropic seasoning syndrome. Because this is a hig...
Read full storyVegetarian & Muslim prisoners in UK prison released because pork is on the menu!
A luxury UK prison in Boston, UK (logical), crowned as the 'cushiest' prison in the UK, only accepts meat-eating inmates because the canteen only serves pork from local pigs, and vegetarian or Muslim inmates cannot be allowed to go hungry! The pri...
Read full storyThe Never-Performed Eighth Movement of "The Planets"
There was a time when my classical music station in Los Angeles, KUSC-fm, played Gustave Holst's "The Planets" more frequently than it does now. That was wen moon walks and Mars landings occurred more often than they do today. The Holst opus is one of the great symphonic compositions of the twentieth century, but after 1930 it was very much in need of an eighth movement. Until 2006, that is.
Read full storyYale solves hanging portrait white race issue
Yale University - The Dean of Yale's Pierson College, Phallus Blanco, has responded to complaints surrounding his hanging portraits of white men in the residence halls. As reported previously (Click to read) "Yale college removes portraits of wh...
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