"It does strike me from time to time how much the sainted G-WOT is a kind of civil war within the global conservative movement. Maybe this is partly why secular parts of the world have had such difficulty getting a purchase on the meaning of the whole thing. There’s a kind of understanding between enemies that they don’t share." – Jamie B&T nails it beautifully.

Scott Campbell points out that "the Washington Times commentary pages now feature as regular columnists Mark Steyn, Thomas Sowell, Michelle Malkin and Larry Kudlow."

I know the Washington Times is something of a joke newspaper, but… Christ… that’s a level of ultra-right pro-torture lunacy (MS, MM) and mindless economic idiocy (LK) at which even NRO would balk. The paper has *one* columnist with any integrity, and even he’s about as paleoconservative as it gets…

Scott also mentions a "very important Tech Central Station interview". Unless anyone can come up with a better suggestion in the comments, this is the official SBBS Oxymoron of the Week.

15 years for a bit of dodgy accounting? Christ, some people (rightly) serve less than that for murder.

Side note to anyone who lost money in the dotcom/telecoms slump: good, you idiot, hope you suffer. Can’t we change the law so that white-collar crimes only count if they impact on people *other than* greedy idiots who fail to spot an investment bubble after it’s been reported in every newspaper and magazine for the previous 18 months?

Weird thing: group Britblog Perfect.co.uk has either turned itself into a satire site, or has recruited a drooling TechCentralStation-esque loon as a contributor. Hopefully, it’s the former.

I’ve linked to Marc at USS Neverdock before. If you’ve been paying attention you’ll be fully aware that he’s a thick, bigoted idiot who would, if there were any justice, be deported from the UK and replaced with a family of Muslims. Preferably ones who speak a really strange language, eat really spicy food, and really don’t like the way the Yanks keep slaughtering their co-religionists.

Read this post about how Evil Left-wing Antiwar types staged a horrible protest at a US soldier’s funeral. Then note the photographis indicating that the protest was actually organised by the Westboro Baptist Church. Then watch the stupid sod getting destroyed 200 times over in the comments section. Re-fucking-sult! (nb Atrios may have had some involvement in the comment-a-lanche…)

Hopefully, this will shame Marc into giving up blogging. Or, if the world were more ideal than I believe it to be, into reevaluating his beliefs.

Dear The Right Wing,

Please can you make your mind up on whether France is a dhimmified nation, destroyed by excessive immigration and multiculturalism and shortly to be ruled by throat-slitting mullahs, or whether it’s a sterling example to Brits of how to avoid That Sort Of Thing?

Alternatively, you could stop whining about how The Sky Is Falling In every time you see a brown face or hear a strange language.

Fuck it, I’m a realist. Just sort the first one out, OK?

Kind regards,

John B

If the BNP are too poncy and public school for your liking, now you can vote for the National Alliance. W00t, etc.

"…to be a true anti-American, one must reject, say, Michael Moore or Noam Chomsky with the same enthusiasm as one does George W Bush or Ronald Reagan" – Third Avenue @ The Sharpener.

If you give a fuck about this story, then you should be beaten with an iron bar until the assorted bits of meat that were previously you are no longer recognisable as human.

This isn’t entirely true. Mild amusement at the fact that some awful wanker had a moderately unpleasant experience, if combined with psychotic increduility at the fact that anyone seriously cares, is permissible. Luckily for me.

US condiments group Heinz has bought UK condiments group HP Foods. No, I’m not getting SBBS and work confused: the New York Times‘s article on the deal features a great paragraph explaining English cuisine for American readers…

"HP Foods is famous in Britain for its namesake sauce, a spicy brown condiment often eaten with bacon sandwiches and "fry ups," a traditional English breakfast of eggs, sausages, bacon, beans, tomatoes and mushrooms."

They also make Worcestershire sauce, which is far preferable (in case anyone was wondering, condiments are officially ranked in this order from best to worse: Encona chilli sauce; Worcestershire sauce; mustard; mayonnaise; HP sauce; Heinz ketchup; other ketchup; rancid scrapings from tramps’ underwear; salad cream). (Via)