I like to think of myself as a hawk-eyed, smart-arsed piss-taker. But I nearly bloody fell for this. As so often happens with good satire, it'll probably happen for real in the not-too-distant.

 
Here's an interesting article about an outbreak of Nazism (i.e. common sense) in San Francisco. I think the same thing will start happening here in Sydney (if it isn't already).

 
This is quite an old article, but it's fascinating. It's about a book describing cases of animal prosecution in centuries past. Considering there are organizations like this one, it seems we're going backwards very fast. (Of course, PETA members are obsessed with defending animals, not prosecuting them. But they share the same underlying concept as the beast accusers: that humans and animals are of equal worth and/or sentience. Frankly, I'm bloody worried about it.)

 
Here's a story about a woman giving birth to a frozen egg baby. The first photo of the sprog in question is found here. (Er, she's the one on the left, of course.)

 
Old ways die hard.

 
Could this be this evidence that greenies are no longer being seen as the noble earth-savers they purport to be, but rather as the dribbling airheads that they actually are?

 
Have a look here. It's a cack. One of the celebrities on this list is none other than Noam Chomsky. But isn't the term "celebrity" a tad demeaning? Shouldn't we be calling him an "intellectual giant"?

 
Just another quick thought on tree-sitting: It's supposed to be, like, really enviromentally friendly, and kind to the fwuffy wittle aminals and all. But look at how ungainly it is. I'd imagine the squirrels and birdies getting very shat off indeed. I mean, hell, it's like having a friggin' elephant in your bedroom!

 
Another leftie subverts the dominant leftist paradigm (idiocy) with some old fashioned common sense.

Read it. It's a pearler.

 
Here's proof that being a greenie is not only bad for your mental state and your personal hygeine, it can also be fatal.

(Please don't interpret from this post that I condemn tree-sitting outright. My fellow Nazis and I think it's a fine activity, and do it often. We just prepare the trees to make them safer and more comfortable.)

 
Here are the barking nutbars who arced up about the Queen's coat: Vegetarians International Voice for Animals. Why do they assume that they can speak for the beasties? How bloody arrogant is that, eh! Anyway, wouldn't it be more appropriate if one of these did the yacking? Probably be more articulate, too.

 
As the headline states, animal activists condemned the Queen's decision to wear real fur on her Canadian trip. But why didn't they condemn this fella's decision to hunt rare South American fauna with his blowgun?

 
Here's a real case of deja vu: Porn star Cicciolina is trying to shag Saddam again. The guy's a chick magnet. What's his secret? Is it the uniform? Or that killer smile?

Whatever. Her offer does seem a bit wacky, but there's a kernel of sense in it. If Mohammad Atta and his retarded, horny mates had gotten laid a few more times in this life, then maybe they wouldn't have been quite so keen to seek sex with 72 virgins in the next.

Apart from the horror, nastiness and brutality of it -- what an amazing length to go to just to get your rocks off!

 
I just found this story about the quest to find the world's funniest joke. (It's a week old already. Shows what a slow coach I am). Anyway, the thing that cracks me up about it is that the joke in question is only vaguely amusing. (Or maybe it's my taste in humor. Perhaps that's why those routines I've been performing have been dying in the arse.)

 
Just a note to say I've just whopped another essay up on my yarn and column blog.