From the daily archives:

Friday, June 26, 2009

Nope, Iran’s not important today

June 26, 2009
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On the BBC News front page 24 hours ago you were still in no doubt that Iran was a matter of tremendous global import, and, indeed, the world’s first Twitter revolution. Today … well see for yourself below. I guess, a 140 character tweet limit is about appropriate for a 140 second attention span. News? [...]

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Oh Claude, you’ve been spammed (explaining Jesus away)

June 26, 2009

I have had a visit from the same spammer who left a self-promotion on Claude Mariottini’s site. An author from what I think is a weird Jewish “heretical” sect is trying to get his even weirder book on Christianity promoted. According to the Amazon blurb:

The Real Messiah explodes the myth that Jesus was the long-prophesied [...]

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I may be a heretic, but …

June 26, 2009

… I have to confess that I’ve never really liked Michael Jackson’s music, and I’m not going to pretend to now that he’s dead.
I’ve never liked child-star singers and the weird adult reaction to them that seems a mix of gooey sentimentality and patronizing admiration. Given that Jackson was a year older than me, I [...]

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