What are they doing up there? Or, to repeat myself from a few years ago, ‘What the F**k is Happening on the Moon?’ The Artemis II mission to the moon has been surrounded by significant hype and excitement: justifiably
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again…’ So said the ‘Prince of Peace’ in a badly judged and widely condemned public statement on Tuesday. Yes, much has been made of Trump’s ominous statements about annihilating
A simple proposition: is the long-awaited destruction of the Al-Aqsa mosque about to be carried
“He’s no Churchill…” President Trump famously said of the British Prime Minister weeks ago. This
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So, it looks like Bibi isn’t dead: but it was a fun diversion for some while it lasted. In fairness, the online
As ominous ‘black rain’ was falling over Tehran, the US/Israeli Holy War in Iran entered week two. There’s a lot else too.
“The President was shocked this morning when he learned of the new Israeli bombardment of west Beirut…” and ”expressed his outrage.” No,
“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon…” Events unfolding in the Middle
The devastating attacks on both Iraq (2003) and Libya (2011) were launched on symbolically significant dates. So too with this war on
So… the Pentagon’s long-awaited and much-hyped report on UFOs has arrived. And, perhaps predictably, nothing much has been said or established in the report. The merely nine-page document seems to express next to nothing: and leaves the entire matter completely open-ended. Which raises the question of what all this hype
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Whatever we may or may not think about Fidel Castro and his long era in Cuba (all of which is difficult, complex and debatable), it has to be said that there is something poetically pleasing about the fact that he survived some 634 assassination attempts, outlasted nine US Presidents and
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“…in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death…” “…I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us
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We already looked at reasons why the Orlando Massacre was
Right now, some over-excitable people are fretting or evangelizing about
It was a bit funny that at more or less
Before the usual calls to either (a) give away all
The apparent Russian attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol
Film
The X-Men film franchise in general has been a mixed
Across three seasons of groundbreaking television with Star Trek (and
There is an art to the theatrical poster for a
Now three decades old, the Search For Spock – the
So Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice went down like
Comics
Music
“You mean like a funeral?” the producer of Nirvana’s MTV
So. Soup. If you’ve already heard it, you probably don’t
As much as I have mixed feelings about Nirvana’s imminent
Yeah, seriously. And you don’t even have to ‘win’ the
Being something of a social outcast and regular grouch, it