A word of advice, first. Your Author, Dear Reader, is unreliable. This account of my time in Nooooo Yawwwwwwk is not to be taken as a verbatim record of what happened - because nothing happened. I went to New York, I attended school for ten hours a day, I fought my way back to the hotel through the subway every evening, and was generally asleep by nine at night helped along by 'herbal sleep aids' and alcohol. In fact, indulging in such minor pleasures may have been the wickedest things I did ...

Idiots, imbeciles and rampant incompetents.... Having been able to pass through security here without showing any kind of ID whatsoever; without having to declare my name, my business or even the location within the Building where I'm attending school, I arrive here today (Saturday) to discover that because it's the frigging weekend everything has changed. NOW state picture ID is required at every turn, every guy in a black jacket is chief of homeland security, and I spent 10 minutes h...

1. I hate, loathe, detest, abominate and am revolted by spiders. 2. I love cartoons of all kinds. 3. The only DC Comics I liked were Dr. Strange and the Silver Surfer. 4. I am completely devoid of any sense of direction. 5. Numbers make no sense to me. 6. I am English. 7. I am not 'British'. 8. My ancestry is Spanish and Irish. 9. When I was an adolescent I fantasised about being a mortician so I could have sex with pretty corpses. 10. I once spent over an hour in a chatroom convinci...

I have insomnia right now... something that happens virtually every time I'm between jobs, hence the two articles in one day. I'm writing this one at the request of island_gurl12, who asked me to talk about my conversion experience(s). A 'crisis conversion' is exactly what's implied by the term - some radical change (perhaps religious, usually 'spiritual') that occurs as a consequence of some stressful situation in life. My crisis conversion occurred when I was 24 and its immediate consequ...

I can't think of anyone more fortunate in all the world than the person who can honestly and sincerely say he or she loves work. The person who can get up Monday morning and honestly and sincerely look forward to spending the next eight or so hours doing what's necessary to pay the bills; keep the kids fed, clothed, and educated; keep a roof overhead. Work. Work .... Starting with the earliest first, here are the three worst jobs I've ever had... I left school in 1977 at age 17. At the...

Like the sub-title says... 1. My emergence into the schoolyard at Richard Atkins Junior School, Streatham, South London. Which occurred at age 8. You may not know it but I have a deformity of the left hand and arm which in effect leaves me with a flipper (Would you like to meet my flipper? Her name is mademoiselle an' she speaks wiz a French accent...). I was the first such creature ever to grace the precincts of the Richard Atkins schoolyard and my advent made quite a stir. To such goo...

I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: "Who are You?" He said:"You." (Diwan al-Hallaj, M. 10) Your Spirit mixed with my Spirit little by little, by turns, through reunions and abandons. And now I am Yourself, Your existence is my own, and it is also my will. (Diwan al-Hallaj) ana'l -Haqq - I am the Truth. (this is the saying which apparently earned al-Hallaj his martyrdom - al Haqq also means God) In the year 922 CE a man, al-Hallaj, utterly unknown in the Wes...

I suppose I can't really call this an article... It is however a genuine response that I posted on one of the threads of the Guardian's 'comment is free' section. ( Link ). I post it here in hopes of encouraging you to explore the site at the Guardian, partly because it's a pretty good site in itself, partly to publicize the ongoing campaign of vitriolic ignorance, poisonous prejudice, and egregious arrogance directed at America by our 'friends' in Europe (in the hope that others beside mys...

Abu al-Zarqawi died, George Washington met him at the Pearly Gates. He slapped him across the face and yelled, "How dare you try to destroy the nation I helped conceive!" Patrick Henry approached, punched him in the nose and shouted, "You wanted to end our liberties but you failed!" James Madison followed, kicked him in the groin and said, "This is why I allowed our government to provide for the common defense!" Thomas Jefferson was next, beat al-Zarqawi with a long cane and snarled "I...

Here I am, barely back two minutes, and already I have something to write about. As an aside, and before we get into the discussion, it quite astonishes me how happy I am to be able to do this once more - I really hadn't realized quite how much I missed this means of expression. Anyway, on with the show. ( Link ) The link will take you to an article, published June 05 2006, in the English newspaper The Guardian. This article makes reference to recent events in Haditha, Iraq, in whi...

I return from the wastelands of the non-JU universe... no doubt to universal applause and rapturous outpourings of spontaneous luuuuuuuuuuuurve, baby. Or maybe not. Before I left I thought I wouldn't really miss this obscure corner of reality - and yet I did. Even though I found a new audience to torment over at the Guardian's 'comment is free' site ( Link ) where, as the Bald Avenger, I thrash the omnipresent hordes of Eurodweebs and their pissant sympathisers from around the globe w...

"I'm curious, LW. What would you say to people that consider this a co-depenant mental problem? You know that some would say that you just happened to hook up with someone who has a complimentary emotional flaw, right? Granted, many also call homosexuality a mental or emotional problem. Do you see it as the same kind of thing? Do you think it is just something you are, irrespective of your experiences and mental adjustment, or something that came from how you were treated earlier in life?"...

Sometime back in the late 70s or early 80s it was decided by then UK premiere, Margaret Thatcher (that bag of vile middle class prejudice) that the best way to halt the violence of the IRA and the 'loyalist' paramilitaries was to deny them what she called the 'oxygen of publicity'. In practice, this turned out to mean that Jerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein (the political organ of the IRA) could be shown on British TV, he could be shown to be speaking to the camera - but his voice could not ...

I've always believed, profoundly, that the principles of natural selection apply as much to the evolution of political societies as they do to the evolution of biological organisms. War is the architect of human society, and has been for at least the last ten thousand years of human sociability, since the first villages came together to defend crops and herd animals from nomadic hunter-gatherers - and from those of other villages who were not averse to supplementing their wealth, their presti...