February 9, 2010
France’s greatest living thinker, Bernard-Henri Lévy is looking about as great a brain as Ricky Gervais’ podcasting tame idiot Karl Pilkington. In his new book On War in Philosophy, he quotes extensively from the lesser-known philosopher Jean-Baptiste Botul. Attacking Immanuel Kant as being a “fake” and “raving mad”, Lévy frequently refers to Botul’s great work [...]
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January 4, 2010
A ROUND-UP OF THE MOST GLARING, RIDICULOUS AND EGREGIOUS LIES, DECEPTION AND BULLSHIT OF 2009
Zebu OrganisationsRoyal Mail clearly deserve to be singled out for their “Sorry You Were Out” cards, pushed through letterboxes, whether people are out or not. Initially, facing an imminent strike, Royal Mail’s less-than-stellar management maintained that this hardly ever happened and [...]
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December 31, 2009
Van Morrison’s website hacked. World’s press yet again fail to check the story
“Van Morrison to be a father again at 64″ trumpeted the headlines earlier this week, surprising many. The most surprised of all was Van Morrison himself. The story resulted from an announcement on his website:
“Gigi (Lee) and Van Morrison are proud to announce [...]
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December 17, 2009
A TV show in Australia called Hungry Beast decided to see just how assiduously their nation’s press checked the gibberish, spin and self-promotion that comprises most press releases before reporting them. They invented a body called The Levitt Institute to make “nation wide studies of the Australian sociological character”
The Levitt Institute’s first report was, [...]
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