Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
David T has documented on this blog over the years, the battle within government against the Muslim Brotherhood. There was a time when it appeared that such groups were firmly on the outside. Now, as part of a general pandering to religious types, it appears they are being rehabilitated. Nick Cohen: As the week wore on, [...]
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Tariq Ali momentarily puts his politics aside, to write of books, films and sticky wickets. David Renton in The Independent: This book is a collection of 36 mid-length articles written by Tariq Ali over the past three decades. It contains...
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
( Indonesia ) Isn't it amazing how offended Muslims can get over something they haven't a clue about? 99.99% of the idiots who wanted Salman Rushdie dead for his book 'The Satanic Verses' can't even read English. (For some reason I cannot see it being published in Arabic, Urdu or Farsi.) But hey, how they protested and killed people who stood in their way. The same goes for the Danish cartoons . (I...
Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Superfreaks come up with their biggest aerosol smoke screen yet to obscure their book’s countless mistakes, as Brad Johnson reports in this Wonk Room repost. Note also how Dubner, in playing the victim card, trivializes the very serious issue of religious persecution. In the latest of many fawning interviews promoting SuperFreakonomics, author Stephen J. Dubner [...]
JogBlog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I was in the library yesterday picking up a copy of The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie (not my choice, someone picked it for this month’s book club, bah) and on the way out I spotted a leaflet advertising a Santa fun run in Maidstone and so I thought, cool, a local race, [...] Related posts: Dagenham Santathon 5k race report Runners I met and liked A (relatively) pain free 12 miles...
Free Dating Tips For UK Personals (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Money and power attract younger girls to older men, and intellect is often the clincher. Nerdy men attract the best babes! Is there a fatal chemistry between intellectual men and super-glamorous women even on many internet dating sites? So, when Salman Rushdie, 62, attended a recent writers’ gala with 26-year-old Harvard grad and glamorous Min Lieskovsky, [...]
Fictionaut Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Okay, the National Book Awards are not quite the Oscars---no one is likely to do a one-arm push up at them---but their 2009 awards ceremony is this Wednesday and it's an exciting line-up this year. Archives of many authors in the running either interviewing or being interviewed are up at the BOMB Magazine website . Read more... Also on the blog: Rediscovered Reading: Pissing in the Snow New: Full-Text...
AUS style (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
A shipment of some rather hipster books I ordered arrived on my doorstep yesterday. The first is Lesley Arfin's Dear Diary which, after reading a review about in either Russh Or Yen ages ago, I have been meaning to get my hands on. I don't enjoy Lesley's column for Russh immensely but I'm quite sure her life 'experience' as documented in this book should be interesting enough. Lesley lives in Brooklyn...
Art History Newsletter (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Duke University professor Gary Hull (editor of The Abolition of Anti-Trust and co-editor of The Ayn Rand Reader) has founded Voltaire Press (which is not affiliated with Duke) and has published Muhammad: The “Banned” Images, which includes the following statement signed by Nadine Strossen, Cary Nelson, Eugene Volokh, and others: A number of recent incidents suggest [...]
lewrockwell.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Intellect is more important than money or looks.
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Those looking to get into the mind of Simon Cowell had their wish granted after the music mogul decided to put his grey matter under the hammer for charity. The X Factor judge, along with other big names including Topshop tycoon Sir Philip Green and author Sir Salman Rushdie, put their names on the auction list [...]
Joy and Slavery (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Microsoft Office is downloading an update to the ol' computer. So I'm going to flex my writing muscles on the blog this morning. This has been a jam-packed semester, so blogging has been a low priority for the last couple of months. Now, though, I'm going to take advantage of this lull to blog about my anxieties. Hooray!!! Things are going fairly well for my MFA application process at this point. The...
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
One day on from meeting Katie Price, Chelsea Handler becomes an aide to masturbation...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Anyone who counts Ayatollah Abdolhossein Moezi as a spiritual leader is unlikely to have joined the British military in the first place. He is the religious envoy of the same regime that calls Britain “the little Satan”. Ayatollah Moezi is the director of the Islamic Centre of England , the London outpost of Iran’s neoconservative regime — a role to which he was personally appointed...
The Virtual World (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Take a look at this picture.That's right. It's apple pie, with bacon.Recipe here.Happy Holidays!
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