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Brrrrr!!! Its cold!

However, one place where things seem to be getting very warm is the border between North and South Korea!

How do you solve a problem like Korea? is an interesting article in The Economist concerning the rising tension between the two sides.

Today's musical tidbit is Don't Eat Yellow Snow by Frank Zappa.

How should a BBC reporter handle a hostile interview?

Take a look at this video on the BBC website. It is a short clip from a Panorama programe called "Scientology and Me". BBC reporter John Sweeney, is shown around an exhibition hosted by the Church of Scientology called "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" in which a scientologist appears to be blaming psychiatrists for encouraging...
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Awesome! Take a look at this. Salvador Dali on "What's My Line?"

Oh my!! This is an awesome, mindblowing, psychedelic song!!

"Primitive" by The Groupies

IRON BUTTERFLYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

A paragon of virtue...?

Today I am musing on the subject of the standards of 'respectability' which we expect professionals to live by and the idea that one's spare time activities, if disapproved of by one's employer may result in disciplinary action or even dismissal.

One day while I was chatting to a nurse on the train, I learned something astonishing. It would appear that...
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Here is a joke which one of my big brothers sent me.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone :-)

Meanwhile, here is an amazing song by Bauhaus called King Volcano



Check out these poetic lyrics...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Now it is time for a song that is utterly soppy but seems very appropriate for the start of a new year; a year in which much of the world will continue to be adversely affected by war, recession and the failure of our politicians to act decisively on global warming.

Paul McCartney We All Stand Together



Win or lose, sink or...
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There is a quaint little shop just down the road from my home which sells old fashioned sweets.

I never used to go there on account of the fact that I already had too many fillings (I had so much metal in my molars that I could have make a mountain of money at the London Metal Exchange).

On day, while feeling sufficiently reckless...
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Hiya folks!

The following song by is truly awesome.
Lake of Fire by Nirvana