Monthly Archives: June 2007

It must have been quite a week…

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Now, let’s see. Monday, light, Tuesday, space. No, wait a minute. Monday, light, Tuesday, the land and the sky and the oceans. Oh hell. (No, that was later.) And all the things that creep on the surface, etc. Wednesday? Thursday? … Continue reading →

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Your bodies, their bigotry

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Amnesty International’s recent advocacy of abortion in the case of rape, incest or risk to the woman’s health has inevitably got up some clerical noses. One of the largest belongs to cardinal Martino, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for … Continue reading →

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Blair’s last whinge

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Am I the only one to have noticed just how appallingly written Blair’s whining attack on the press is? (Read it here, if you really must.) I’m not saying that grammatical manners maketh man, a la Lynne Truss, but should … Continue reading →

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They can’t even bomb straight

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Charles Lambert

The Pentagon was apparently working on a gay bomb, according to this article. A bomb that would release powerful aphrodisiacs, so powerful that previously heterosexual soldiers would drop their guns and dive into each other’s camouflage trousers, rip off those … Continue reading →

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Eric Schwartz: Keep your Jesus off my Penis

Posted on June 12, 2007 by Charles Lambert
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And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard…

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Charles Lambert

It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall. And not only on Bush… (Hi Dobby!!) Once again, with thanks, from Bits and Pieces.

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Footnotes

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Two small footnotes to one aspect of Bush’s wasteful and unnecessary visit to Rome. The day before he arrived someone scrawled an anti-Bush message on a stone designed to commemorate the murder of the Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro and … Continue reading →

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Layers of meaning

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Charles Lambert

This comes from a rusting metal door a few streets from where I live. I’ve no idea how it got there, though it has a Banksy sort of artiness about it. Zorro and X-Men seem to have been added at … Continue reading →

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The Possibility of an Island

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Charles Lambert

I‘ve just finished reading this novel by Michel Houellebecq and I’m disappointed. It has the same lazy, rather awkward style that’s characteristic of all his work and is intended, presumably, to show that he doesn’t have the time or energy … Continue reading →

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Revealed truths 5

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Charles Lambert

A Pentecostal teaching assistant in Croydon recently quit her job after refusing to listen to a seven-year-old girl read from a Harry Potter novel on the grounds that the book glorifies witchcraft, described in the Bible as an ‘abomination’. She … Continue reading →

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