Do you consider everyone who disagrees with you to be a fool? Should people who believe that others ought to have the opportunity to formulate their own opinions be thought of as fools?
Professor Dawkins seems to think so. Texas Governor Rick Perry, who is one of the candidates for the Republican nomination in next year’s [...]

Impressive illusions with iPods…

This sign is on Congressman Ron Paul’s desk.
It could be on any desk in any country.
My two dogs had minor operations today. Both are doing fine and have just eaten heartily. I don’t mind the vet’s bill, but 20% VAT on top? It seems rather callous of the Government to penalise us like this when [...]

I am thinking of having this blog redesigned. Any ideas, suggestions or improvements which could be made?
I think the width should be reduced to make reading easier, and maybe one of the side columns removed.
Do you find that the pages tend to load slowly?
Would extra features help, like receiving an email when someone else comments [...]

Leg-iron likes to test how dumb some people are by telling them some ridiculous thing that he has made up and seeing if they believe him. Apparently, a lot of folk fall for his insistence that Roman roads were built straight because they hadn’t invented steering back then.
I just had a look at Leggy’s blog [...]

This has to be one of the saddest sights in the world, indicating a union of two people of the same sex who are settling for a fake life together, denying themselves the joy of true marriage, children and grandchildren.
Just to prove that the SNP are as keen to follow the same agendas as the [...]

It’s about time I blogged on the rioting. It seems to be quite a complex issue with potentially far-reaching consequences, one of which is the further undermining of the freedom of the internet. Social networking sites were used to organise the rioting and looting and the Met considered shutting down Twitter, but discovered that they [...]

The European Union seems determined to take the continent back to the Dark Ages – literally – as the ban on the manufacture of 60 watt incandescent light bulbs comes into force at the end of the month. A couple of years ago the 100W bulbs were removed from the shelves, now the 60W and [...]

It’s that time of year again – actually, it seems later than usual – when Total Politics gives us the chance to vote for our favourite bloggers. This year you can also vote for your favourite blog writers and political tweeter. I have just filled it in. You need to list at least five in [...]

I will be writing about more serious stuff later, of which there seems to be an abundance at the moment, but we all need a laugh, whatever’s going on. One of my favourite things to do on the internet is find out how people have come to this blog. This morning, someone arrived at this [...]