http://www.cynicalbastard.com Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:34:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sometimes other people do the rants you wish you'd done yourself. Andy Bull disintegrating in THe Guardian's over-by-over coverage of the debacle that is the Galle Test Match is a fine example... 33rd over: England 102-1 (Cook 53 Bell 17) No, Ian Forth, that is not my problem ta. My problem ... http://www.cynicalbastard.com/index.php/2007/12/my-problem-is/ regular readers will know that just after the Yorkshire Dales, Northumbria comes right up there on my list of 'most beautiful places in the world'. So I was heartened by this campaign to return to the Northumbrian nation their most precious relic. By way of t'Grauniad. They don't quite say ... http://www.cynicalbastard.com/index.php/2007/03/northumbrias-marbles/ Sorry have I missed something in this story? Iranian guards take prisoner fifteen sailors and Royal Marines. The latter are usually as hard as nails. And the Brits go meekly, submissively, into Iranian custody. Why weren't they authorised to use force to protect themselves? Why didn't the ship they were ... http://www.cynicalbastard.com/index.php/2007/03/bombing-tehran/ So it turns out ecstasy is an extremely safe drug. Anyone want to lay bets on the first media organization to get Paul Betts to comment? After all, death of a child always makes you an appropriate person to quote on pubic and health policy. And a child must have ... http://www.cynicalbastard.com/index.php/2007/03/betts-you-anything/ Got a couple of emails about 'lost' comments. Currently I'm getting around 200-250 spam comments every day. Anything held in the spam queue gets wiped without checking. If you comment with any links in the comment, you get treated as spam. http://www.cynicalbastard.com/index.php/2007/03/lost/ Sorry, but I love the wonderful brilliance of this. It might be on Fox and all, but it ranks with a 'Richard and Judy' fxed phone in for coolness, I mean, whose gonna be taken in? And do any of those people matter? http://www.cynicalbastard.com/index.php/2007/03/statistics/ Has fundamentalist athiest Richard Dawkins finally taken one step too far? Suggesting the not-exactly-pretty woman at the centre of the BA cross scandal had 'one of the stupidest faces I'd ever seen' is one thing. It's all in a day's work for the arch-rationalist bully covering his ears and shouting ... http://www.cynicalbastard.com/index.php/2007/03/the-height-of-hubris/ My beloved and I visited Le Champignon Sauvage ( a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch there--'when I met Gerald he was completely wild', 'wild? I was livid') this week. And very good it was too. I broke my incipient and collapsing vegetarianism by eating duck hearts. And very nice ... http://www.cynicalbastard.com/index.php/2007/02/edinburgh/ And about time too. Next step, the polar bears eat the President of merka http://www.cynicalbastard.com/index.php/2007/02/bears-strike-back/ One of my beloved brothers has started bloggin and ranting over here. Nice stuff, like a mini-uk boingboing at the mo. Course he's very late into the blogoshire, but I'm sure he'll grace it rather more than I do at the moment. I'm awaiting the flippant throwaways on xianity to ... http://www.cynicalbastard.com/index.php/2007/02/bros-blogs/