December 2011
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Depending on whether you believe the signage or the press releases, Tom Cruise’s...
– Me, earlier today, on Facebook
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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and...
– Sen. Robert Kennedy, at the University of Kansas, March 1968
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He’s the star of Iron Man, Two Girls and a Guy, Wonderboys. Sorry, are these...
– Ricky Gervais at the 2011 Golden Globes, introducing Robert Downey Jr
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I have very little sympathy with celebrities who sell their weddings for a...
– Piers Morgan to the Leveson inquiry
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I’m ashamed to be telling you this because we are supposed to be living in a...
– Steve Turner, general secretary of the British Association of Journalists, to the Leveson inquiry
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Newspaper reports say he enjoyed basketball and drawing cartoons in Switzerland,...
– AFP on Kim Jong Un
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Kim Jong-un Looking at Things →
henrycooke:
This didn’t take long.
The next-generation Tumblr begins.
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Moffat: K-Gill to leave Doctor Who →
Farewell to K-Gill next year. However, it would be nice to see her do other things. Good luck!
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The protest movements are indeed against Big Business—a perfectly justified...
– Robert Fisk: ‘Bankers are the dictators of the west’, The Independent
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There’s always some asshole reminding us that human evolution is a very slow...
– Me, on Facebook, just now
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It may not be racist, but it’s a question I’m... →
Love this little Guardian op-ed, and it surprises me the writer got some negative comments about it. I would never ask someone that question because of their skin colour, but I will because of their accent—as most are happy to talk about their travels. To someone with the same skin colour as me, I might ask of their ancestry. In other words, it’s not something I would ask of Sir Anand Satyanand.
November 2011
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