The seven words you can't use on American TV. George Carlin died.  The great George Carlin. Shit.  Fuck it.  What a fucking motherfucker.  Isn't that a cunt?  What a cocksucking [...]

That's a strange old story, isn't it? Vlado Taneski, a Macedonian reporter, was in prison, accused of killing elderly women and then writing gruesome reports on their murders. Rough. A [...]

We're screwed. Goosed.  Fucked.  Knackered.  Bollixed. Kiboshed. Stuffed. Ruined.  Shattered. That's it.  We're buggered. According to the Economic and Social Research Institute, the party's over and we're all up Shit [...]

After that little rant about the Eucharistic Congress, maybe we should have a bit of music to calm down. This is a band I stumbled across a couple of years [...]

A Eucharistic Congress in Ireland, by Jesus.  How appropriate, and not a second too soon.   How we pine for the glory days of 1932 when priests stalked every dance-hall [...]

What's wrong with rain? I like the Blade Runner kind of rain we got last night.  For me, it adds an edge to the evening, and I like to imagine [...]

Mr Darwin has dug out a macabre story from Brno. Read it here.

Suppose the German football team appeared on the field wearing a swastika.  What would happen? Do I need to ask?  In the first place, it would never occur, but, stretching [...]

So Naomi Campbell was convicted for doing this. So what? Why is it news that a spoilt, cossetted, empty-headed, adult child gets a community service order for throwing a tantrum? [...]

Maz from Style Treaty has just started a new site HERE. I'm delighted.  It'll hold the answers to all my crocheting and embroidery questions.  Check it out.