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Point a remote control at your balls and click the off button if you want to have sex for fun. Point it again and click the ‘on’ button to get down to the business of making a baby. Yes… it’s an adjustable vasectomy. Love it. Happy Valentine’s Day, readers and ...

Are you sitting comfortably? So the U.S. launches a spy satellite in 2006 incorporating some top-secret U.S. technology to be used in the international war on terror and national defense in general. But a technical issue with the satellite makes it almost immediately inoperable, uncontrollable, and on a slow path ...

This legal dispute could only happen in California, summarised by the LA Times thus: “When the shade from redwoods casts a shadow over solar panels, what’s an environmentalist to do?” It’s a beautiful crystal of environmentalist angst. Which is more important? Planting (and conserving and respecting and embracing) the beautiful ...

Valentine’s Day is almost upon us and I’ve lost count of the number of single people who have been lamenting their plight at this time of year. I decided to have a little look at Singleton town, so I opened the newspaper and began reading the personal ads: lonely hearts ...

“The Virtue of the Labour Government.” Now there’s a sentence I never thought I would write. Those who have followed our musings for even just a little while will have seen our denunciation of much of what the Labour government has done. But they’re not all bad. Most them are ...

The first part of Ron Paul’s letter to his supporters reads as though it could be the mission statement of this blog: “If I may quote Trotsky of all people, this Revolution is permanent. It will not end at the Republican convention. It will not end in November. It will ...

Last week oil firm Royal Dutch Shell reported annual profits of $27.56 billion – £13.9b. That would certainly buy you a pint of beer and a packet of crisps with some money left over for your bus fare home. I’m clearly in the wrong line of business. It’s a record ...

As Crawley reports this morning, it appears Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has trodden on a landmine of British legality with some comments made as part of his foundation lecture at the Royal Courts of Justice. In short, Williams’ comments are a thoughtful discussion-opener on the question of whether the ...

So, Mitt Romney is out. This is interesting, considering that many considered only him and John McCain to be the “serious” contenders for the nomination. Left in the race: John McCain (the inevitable?), Mike Huckabee (blah) and Ron Paul. So why didn’t Ron Paul do better on Super Tuesday? James ...

“Be Prepared” is the motto of the Scouts but I seriously doubt anything could have prepared them for a rather bizarre attack by the National Secular Society (NSS) and the British Humanist Association (BHA). The Scouts association is being unceremoniously dragged up in front of the Equality and Human Rights ...

Both are compared and analysed in an article published today by Brian Doherty, senior editor at Reason. I love this show. Since the very first minutes of the very first series, I’ve been hooked on Lost. It’s the best-written, best-produced mythology of the past decade, and it has certainly seemed ...

Ted Mayhall is a beef patty short of a hamburger. He’s one of three Mississippi state legislators responsible for proposing a bill which would make it illegal for Mississippi restaurants to “repeatedly” serve extremely obese people. Is it a ridiculous law to propose? Of course. I would write at more ...

This week really puts the “United” in “United States”. A day after one of the most remarkable Superbowl games ever, during which I took a short drive on near-empty streets as everyone was watching the game, we’re now only one day from Super Tuesday, in which Republicans and Democrats in ...

In my short but colourful life I have almost died on one occasion (nearly drowned) and seriously considered killing myself on another (hadn’t chosen a particular method). I’m glad I didn’t in both cases. But there may come a time when death would be preferable to life and debate still ...

When faced with any problem the first reaction of some is to start shrieking hysterically, “the government must do something!” Unfortunately the government is singularly terrible at doing even the most basic things well: like keeping confidential data, umm, confidential and not losing the details of millions of people as ...

I find it astonishing the things that people will get upset over. This photo is Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, mayor in the 500-resident town of Arlington, Oregon. The residents are so angry about this picture from her MySpace page that they’re issuing a recall petition against her (essentially trying to get her ...

What do you call a man with one testicle? Geoffrey Jones. The poor sod used to have two but he lost one when his now ex-girlfriend Amanda Monti ripped it off. Ouch. Ripped it off. With her bare hands. I can barely sit on this seat thinking about it without ...

Michael Kinsley had an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times on January 12th entitled ‘Libertarians deserve a listen‘. I agree! And I was interested to see the story. The same thing appeared in the Washington Post on the same day titled slightly less favourably The Church Doctrines of Pope ...

Saturday was a special day, set apart by the music gods in order that this latent blogger might enjoy the very best in big-name live music: first at 1pm, U2 3D at the Imax theatre at Irvine Spectrum, then at 5pm, Garth Brooks live at the Staples Center in Los ...

Northern Ireland is full of the buggers: Born Again Paramilitaries, or “BAPS” as I prefer to call them. They swan around regenerated, forgiven, no longer the bad guys who terrorised people. They’ve found Jesus. And holy Hell do they know how to moralise. Often you can detect a rather horrible ...