What's going down in the 'hood?
The latest entries into this pit of despair
- Freedom: a matter of perspective
- 3 May
Presidential Medals of Freedom, the US equivalent of top gongs for doing the day job. And 'Pa Joe's giving out nineteen of those suckers, although not all recipients will be in attendance.
(more…)- politics; quoted for WTF?
- US jobs in the US, of all places!
- 3 May
It appears that US job growth has slowed as US employers added too few jobs to the US jobs market. Something tells me this might be a stateside story.
(more…)- BBC editorial standards: how many monkeys does it take…?; I, pedant
- The bee's knees 🐝
- 1 May
A search for
(more…)do bees have knees?
* threw up this strange follow-on:how many bees do knees have?
- quoted for WTF?
- Rapper's delight
- 30 April
Announced on the BBC's home page:
(more…)Iranian rapper sentenced to death
. It may seem harsh, but it's not unreasonable. And it's nice to see that at least the Iranian authorities are taking the blight on the music scene that (c)rap represents seriously.- culture vulture; politics; random thoughts & brain farts
- Impermanent permanence
- 30 April
A tale of fallen glory and fortitude among the German Bundesliga, as the once mighty Schalke descend to the lower levels of the second division and fight off relegation, is accompanied by this unfortunate choice of words:
(more…)- politics
The latest updates to past woes
- Dumza rock
- 30 April
As I suspected, Meechan's inconsolable! You don't have to watch the video, you can just tell by the look on his face in the thumbnail.
(more…)- politics
- Ranking officer
- 23 April
It's been fixed now.
(more…)- BBC editorial standards: how many monkeys does it take…?; I, pedant
- Harsh, but fair
- 19 April
On two of the three questions I guessed wrong…
(more…)- in the news; random thoughts & brain farts
- They come as a pair
- 19 April
Oh, this is interesting, albeit mildly. Sweeney, or rather her
(more…)representative
, made a rebuttal to Baum's comments which was reported in Variety. And this is where the BBC picked up on the story.- celeb; wit & wisdom of the comments section
- Woke Scrabble
- 17 April
I'm pretty sure the recent accusation of Scrabble going woke only applied to the dumbing down of Scrabble Together as being
(more…)less intimidating and made for Gen-Z
whoprefer a less cutthroat game with more opportunity for collaboration
.* But there was a bit of a spat a couple of years ago, when419
.offensive
Scrabble words [were banned] on the orders of game owners Hasbro and Mattel- random thoughts & brain farts