In the States civil servants get paid to censor vanity plates. Here are a couple that didn’t make it in Florida: I H8 GOD MY HO KIZ MY A ATHEIST (but only temporarily) And here are some that did: IAM GOD KICKAZZ (but only temporarily) Apparently Kentucky is the home of free expression, allowing HATE…
Tom Shields in his excellent sports column in the Sunday Herald makes the interesting claim that: Camp Nou was turned into a concentration camp by police… The fans sporting green and white, even those with ingeniously secured tickets for expensive seats at the Camp Nou, were herded through a gauntlet of riot police into a…
From the Manchester Times (that’s Manchester, TN, people): Phillip Robinson … is studying the Korean language in accordance with the Marine Corps Foreign Language Program, which creates proficient linguists for the support of tactical and strategic missions worldwide. I’m sure Mr Robinson will do very well, but I still wonder whether they’ll be able to…
Don King hedged his political bets pretty well this time round, with contributions going to Dick Gephardt, George W and Carol Moseley Braun. He is not always so diplomatic. A couple of years ago I went to the ICA to see an Israeli film about orthodox culture. There was a bomb scare just before it…
… are going from bad to worse. First there was the defeat of a tawdry bunch of Manchester liberals by a rabble of saucepan- and mobile-wielding Marxists. Then 70K kids left behind 20 tons of rubbish in a couple of Seville suburbs during an impromptu spring party – organised by phone. And now a colleague’s…