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Author Archives: Charles Lambert
Renaissance man
According to the lunchtime edition of the state-run news programme TG2, penicillin was discovered by Ian Fleming. Presumably between writing Dr No and From Russia With Love.
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Inanity of the body snatchers
Feel like being amused in a scary, flesh-creeping way? That’s right, I’m talking about the Tom Cruise Scientology video. It’s been pulled off Youtube and quite a few sites, but you can still catch it here. (It doesn’t seem to … Continue reading
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Papal bull part two
Well, would you believe it? Ratzinger’s decided that his presence at La Sapienza would be ‘inopportune’. It’s hardly the first time his cowardice desire to avoid conflict has overruled his spiritual, and political, responsibilities. Less than a month ago, he … Continue reading
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More papal bull
It’s Ratzinger’s week. Not content with assuming the position (see below), he’s stirred up a hornet’s nest at La Sapienza, Rome and Italy’s largest university. Invited to the inauguration of the academic year (which, typically, takes place months after it’s … Continue reading
Posted in corruption, ratzinger, university, vatican, vladimir luxuria
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Assuming the position
Eggs Benedict celebrated mass yesterday with his back turned to the congregation, something that hasn’t been done since the Second Vatican Council. It might not be that user-friendly in the traditional catholic sense, but hey! it can’t be the first … Continue reading
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What I’m worth
$3750.00The Cadaver Calculator – Find out how much your body is worth.
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Withdrawal
My thanks to the Humor Archives for this (and the photo of Tony Blair on holiday in the post below).
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Blair babble
Confirmation that Tony Blair has decided to run Europe while waiting for Eggs Benedict to meet his maker (and I’d love to be there when that happens, assuming it ever does) and free up the Vatican CEO slot came yesterday, … Continue reading
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Family life
The Destruction of the Father is the name of a piece by Louise Bourgeois. She describes it in this way: This piece is basically a table, the awful, terrifying family dinner table headed by the father who sits and gloats. … Continue reading
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Under the Day
This poem comes from a collection, entitled Creative Accounting, written when the term still had the capacity to amuse or shock. After Enron etc., that’s clearly no longer the case, but it still goes some way towards indicating what the … Continue reading
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CHARLES LAMBERT 