All glory to the hypnotoad:

Only £4500, to piss off every ‘Tony Martin Was Great’ swivel-eyed loon in the country? I love the BBC.

This anti-UK smear piece in Haaretz isn’t worth reading – at least not if you’ve read anything by Melanie Phillips, or any of the rants from the Decent Left (TM) about Ken Livingstone.

However, this quote from British Jewish TV producer Dan Patterson is interesting: "How can you be incandescent with fury about Israel, but not about what is going on in Sudan or with Syria in Lebanon? When you say you’ve just been in Israel, it’s like it used to be 20 years ago telling people you’d just been in South Africa". This is a very good analogy, especially as 20 years ago, there were a great many places worse than South Africa that didn’t attract the same opprobrium in the UK.

There are two possibilities at work here. One is that because of our country’s history, British people view colonial oppression by white people as something that we have a greater obligation to protest about than non-colonial oppression by non-white people. The other is that British people are not only antisemitic but also antisouthafricanic.

I wonder which is more likely?

I’ve found something even more insane than the Roseville artist story. Apparently writing about one’s school being destroyed in a zombie rampage now counts as a second-degree felony in Kentucky.

I hereby make terroristic threats against all the dicklords and arseclowns involved in the prosecution of William Poole. And also against anyone who makes the moronic claim that the US has greater freedom of speech than the UK. Just because there’s a piece of paper saying this is the case, doesn’t mean that it is (see also this, and this).

SBBS’s Person of the Day is Jim Short, current holder of the Dick Lord Award.

Fafblog is one of the best satirical organs in existence. This piece on the wave of almost-peaceful sort-of-democratization gently drifting through the Middle East is sheer genius, especially as it could easily have been created straight-facedly by most of the neocon and Decent Left (TM) commentariat.

Relatedly, a Daniel comes to judgement on the lessons to be learned from Argentina and Lebanon.

The Americans, apparently due to some kind of administrative fuck-up, have put the Canadian foreign minister on their no-fly list.

I wonder how long it’ll be before assorted War on Terra cheerleaders start coming up with spurious arguments that Bill Graham is Really A Terrorist And The Americans Were Right?

In the unlikely event that anyone involved in planning a Democrat political campaign is reading this, read this instead.

Also, if anyone still respects Joe Leiberman, please stop now.

(via here)

If anyone wants to argue that this is a sensible use of the law, I’ll both a) destroy them in argument b) come round their house and break their legs.

Roseville city attorney John Dolan is, obviously, a key member of the SBBS assassination list (see disclaimer).

Here are two excellent suggestions on what should be done with the countryside. I favour the first (the article) on the grounds of amusement, and the second (the comment) on the grounds of It Being The Right Thing To Do.