Hopefully, the tragic death of Dawn Brancheau, the trainer who was killed by an Orca at Seaworld in Orlando yesterday, will impel the owners/shareholders of Seaworld to end these shows. Orcas are wild creatures that belong in the ocean. Turning them into performers for profit in so-called amusement parks to […]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
I loved this beautifully written piece by Roger Ebert, the film critic, mourning the loss of a bit of London’s eccentric history – like all the best writing, it puts you right on the spot so you can see and feel and smell the place being described. I don’t often […]
Roger Ebert’s Lament For a Piece of Lost London
I’m having a fascinating discussion on Facebook about the Falkland Islands, again in the news, which has mushroomed into a general discussion about colonialism and the Third World. A passionate, Latin Marxista in London paints a black and white picture of colonialism. But new studies have shown that what we […]
The Falkland Islands
The four hours of taped interviews I recorded with Cliff Arnebeck not only proved he was no tinfoil hatter or conspiracy theorist but that his claim that the Ohio, 04 election had been stolen by cyber fraud, though not yet proven, was founded on solid, forensic and circumstantial evidence. The […]
Cybergate: The Back Story (6)
The Maxim article has just posted @ http://tinyurl.com/ydwqdhj It’s been filed in, of all places, a section called ” Stupid Fun.” Incongruous, to say the least. But at least it may get plenty of hits. At the moment it seems to be the third most popular posting.
Cybergate @ Maxim.com
My nephew, Patrick Graham, has just made this excellent video to promote the new, eBook edition of The Poet & The Murderer @ http://tinyurl.com/yz73dxv
The Poet & The Murderer: On YouTube
I didn’t have a dog in this fight. I come from a country (Britain) where we still vote with a stubby bit of pencil and a ballot paper. Not my country, not my problem. Besides, a new era had dawned. Obama had been elected. If these cyber geeks were so […]