Blair betraying Freddie?

Almighty personalised Google is having problems with syndication widgets: No 10 denies ‘secret email’ claims 1/26/07 Australia cruise to nine-wicket victory. says the Guardian feed. Norm suggests voting for Blair, so I did, but only twice.

Me cago en la suegra de tu cuñada

Heard on the bus, “I shit on the mother-in-law of your sister-in-law”, a fine new interpretation of the popular Spanish profanity, “Me cago en tu madre”, “I shit on your mother”.

More ritual noise for pogroms

A while back I posted a translation of a memoir of the use of sound in Jew-killing Easter celebrations in the 1940s in Torelló, about 90km north of Barcelona: Then the monsignor left the altar and told us that we could start killing the Jews. And he had all the boys beat the planks that…