I Don't Like You Either.

Hope for a New Species or Giant Hoax? Men Claim to Have Recovered the Body of Sasquatch

by Cockney Robin | cross-posted at BN-Politics | Apparently two men from Georgia (USA) have recovered the frozen 7'7, 500 pound body of a creature they believe is Sasquatch---or rather a sasquatch (NYT; click to see photo), since they claim they saw other similar creatures in the same area. (CNN)  One of the finders is a former police officer and another is an ex-corrections officer. (CNN) They won't say where they found it so as to protect those other creatures.  I call that very wise of them---and no, I'm not being sarky here.

John Derbyshire is Alarmed! And Other Things Beginning with 'A'!

by Cockney Robin | You've got to hand it to him for always being able to come up with new ways of being a pillock.  Here is exhibit A (for 'arsehole'), from his comments about the cowardliness of the students who got slaughtered at Virginia Tech, with some reactions from across the spectrum.

First he quotes a discussion of a recent study concerning the disappearance of America's white majority.

"If we don't invest in educating and training African-American kids, immigrants and Latino kids, we won't have a middle class," said Mark Sawyer, the director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at the University of California at Los Angeles. "We'll have a very, very poor disposable class that's largely black or brown."[link]

 

Now More than Ever: Everything has Something to Do with the Templars

by Cockney Robin | The best novel--bar none--about the Knights Templar is Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.  [Damozel reviewed it here.  She also made me read it---as in 'nagged me all the hours there were till it was easier to read it than to listen to her nag me to read it'.  The characters in the novel feed the fundamental axiom 'The Templars have something to do with everything' into a computer program they are building that is designed to tie up every loose end and all esoteric knowledge in history, and answer every question...   As Damozel says:

In addition to everything else, it's a book about The Da Vinci Code, or its theoretical underpinnings, even though it was written long before it.

It is a mine of information you probably did not know.  But it is also a novel.[Just Eat the Damn Peach'

Cockney Robin is Afraid of Bill Kristol

by Cockney Robin | Somebody hold me.

Mr. William Kristol is at it again (in an op-ed disturbingly entitled 'Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid'). He is striking fear into my guileless British heart by his claim to have been frightened into an attack of moroseness.  As the world now knows, nothing is more dangerous then a frightened, morose neocon.  Think of Dick Cheney and you'll see what I mean.  They're even scarier than the cheery, clueless types (George Bush) who spout neocon policy---getting every other word wrong---as if  it's been drilled into them, or the jeering, strutting types like Karl Rove.

Put Out More (Big Red) Flags

by Cockney Robin | Damozel already covered the Berlin speech, but a quick review shows that right-wing bloggers are under-represented.  With the help of the indispensable Memeorandum, I thought I'd spend a little time gauging the reaction on the right --- always a fascinating excursion for a simple Brit. [The views expressed here are mine only etc.]

Fox News via the Newshoggers:  dark-skinned Europeans (Muslims??) support Obama, which is a big red flag

Ann Althouse:  Thousands of Germans cheering for an American candidate might be construed by some less sophisticated person to be a big red flag.

Ride the Wayback Pony: Goodbye, Tony Blair---The Musical

by Cockney Robin | For posterity:   a personal favourite from awhile ago. 

The Star-Spangled Banner

by Cockney Robin | It's not an easy song to sing, is it?  But these blokes rock it.

Video Jokes at JibJab | Funny Pictures at JibJab | Video Jokes at JibJab

Ride the Wayback Pony: "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" [Blair's Cover]

Posted by Cockney Robin |    I know it's old, but I never get tired of it.  Since we're apparently collecting our favourites for posterity, here's mine.

 

Bush T-Shirt Slogans

Posted by Cockney Robin | After all, he's still the president.

I found these at a blog called Forwarded to My Inbox.  I am hoping the person who posted them won't mind my quoting them.   I never get anything good in my inbox, especially from friends who are fond of forwarding me things.