This is my hundredth post. It's taken five and a half years to get to it. I've only had 100 interesting things to say in over half a decade, and quite a lot of that was just filler. Ho hum.

Here's a new Marsipan bit for you.

I'm so rubbish...

Here's a link to all of the documentaries on Google Video.

You're welcome.

It occurs to me, when reading about the increasingly-bizarre case of Abdel Kareen
Nabil, whose father and brothers learned the whole Koran to show their devotion whilst abandoning their sibling, that one of the reasons many people around the world have less than total confidence in the War on Terror is its hugely selective imposition.

It is not a War on Terror. George Bush has no intention of invading the Basque region or Northern Ireland. It is a War on Certain Terrorists of a Religious Nature. However, the catch-all term does allow Vladimir Putin to gloss over the Chechnya problem, and his troops actions in Beslan as part of the War on Terror.

We claim that we support democracy in the Middle East, which is quite clearly an untruth. If you have the misfortune to be living in Saudi Arabia or Egypt, whose regimes provide us with lots of money and oil, our troops probably won't be riding in any time soon to secure your freedoms. Sorry. The same applies if you're living under military dictator Parvez Musharraf in Pakistan (who even got interviewed on the Daily Show, we like him so much). You're going to have to do it yourselves.

Also, our siding with Shia militants in Iraq, providing a base for Moqtada al Sadr and the Mahdi Army shows that we aren't even consistent in opposing violent religious fundamentalists. Not if they dislike the same people we dislike.

What Tony Blair and George Bush do not realise are that there are many people who opposed the war in Iraq who would support a general push for greater freedom for the peoples of the world. They just don't think their way is the best way of doing it.

Well, I'm the Pick of the Day, over at 4Laughs again.

However, the observant among you may notice the changes in the sketch that have had to have been made for legal reasons. Barry is very litigious.

If you've got time, do go and rate everything we've done incredibly highly, please.


Thanks.

To the person who ended up here, having typed the search term 'wanks surrey' into Google, I can only apologise. And hope you found what you were looking for.

Of course, the search log for our Dirty Blondes site makes for even more interesting reading. 'Barry Scott porn', indeed...

There's a new Dirty Blondes podcast out...

(It occurs to me that I'm using this blog almost wholly to promote what I'm doing on other sites, at the moment. Oh well. Tough.)

Right - things are really kicking off over at The Podcasts of Charles Dickens. And by 'kicking off', I mean, occurring quite slowly and with no one noticing. Oh yeah...

Dave Devries makes monsters out of children's drawings. They are brilliant, and I urge you all to go and look at them now...

Here is Matt Taibbi, an American columnist on what a complete repeal of the Estate Tax would cost most Americans. Given that Stephen Byers is so eager to thrust the same idea on us (with the help of Richard Madely who mentions it as often as he can wedge it into an item - God, I have too much time on my hands), might it not be an idea for someone to do the same for Great Britain.

Who benefits the most from the repeal of inheritance tax? In numbers, in Great Britain.

And who pays? What won't we have (hospitals? schools? roads?) as a result. Unfortunately, I'm far too lazy to do it myself. Richard and Judy doesn't watch itself, you know...

Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch, scammer style!