Author Archives: Charles Lambert

Lies, lies and more lies

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Charles Lambert

And talking of Sarah Palin… You can see the interview this comes from here. What’s hilarious is that McCain implies that it was fine for him to use the lipstick on a pig metaphor, but not fine for Obama to … Continue reading →

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Very important people

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Silvio Berlusconi will be making a state visit to George Bush mid-October to discuss world affairs. I don’t know who’s most likely to benefit from this, given that one is totally discredited at home and abroad, while the other has … Continue reading →

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Evidence

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Charles Lambert

A couple of nights ago, while reporting in its usual brown-nosing way on Ratzinger’s visit to France, Italy’s TG2, the state-run evening news programme, talked about the ‘appearance’ of the Madonna at Lourdes. Except that, the way it was said, … Continue reading →

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Contempt

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Italian actress, comedian and satirist Sabina Guzzanti‘s in trouble. The last time old broom (read: Berlusconi) swept clean (read: ensure that all critical voices on state television had their contracts pulled from under them) she must have been on sabbatical … Continue reading →

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Moi Soleil

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Charles Lambert

I haven’t got a lot of time for Jeff Koons. After all, he ruined the reputation of Cicciolina, a perfectly respectable hard-working pornostar-cum-politician in the pre-Berlusconi days when politics in Italy was a serious matter. But I can’t see what’s … Continue reading →

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No, you can’t

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Read this hilarious post from Jesus’ General, which would be even funnier if it were satire rather than the simple truth. Here’s a taste to get you in the mood: No, you queers can’t have equality at work or in … Continue reading →

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Giuseppe Mallia

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Charles Lambert

If you’d like to see more of Giuseppe’s work, and you’d have to be mad not to, click here.

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Hang on! The worst is yet to come…

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Charles Lambert

This is just one small frame from an entire comic devoted to the horrors of homosexuality. It was produced in the 1980s by someone called Dick Hafer, who clearly had issues. You can read the whole exhilarating opus here. And … Continue reading →

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Creeps

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Charles Lambert

This photograph gives me the creeps. I wanted to share them with you.

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Football

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Charles Lambert

You may have noticed the conspicuous absence of football from this blog. One of the funniest, and most shocking, moments at the start of each new academic year is the one in which I’m outed by students as someone who … Continue reading →

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