More interspecies love.

“Baboon adopts a chicken at Lithuanian zoo”

What? You expectorated a post on the latest fucking crap at Comment is Fucking Worthless?

Piss off.

PS. Bears shit in the woods.

I’m willing to buy any man who gives Steve Bell a wedgie a pint.

Al Qaeda, by way of contrast, are offering $100,000 (£49,310) for the murder of Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist. If you do the optional extra “slaughtered like a lamb” style murder, you get a 50% bonus.

But surely if it isn’t done for love of the cause, it won’t count?

In the light of the current situation in Iraq, I present, without comment, Colin Powell’s recent Powerpoint presentation on Leadership.

Remember the Slate piece by Hitchens on Tariq Ramadan?

Well, there is now a MP3 audio of Hitch asking the awkward questions and it is available here. Lots of translation stuff going on, strictly for the specialists this one… . Ramadan wanks on a bit about Hitchens being disrespectful — the fucking prick. A proper debate between the two of them would be good. Anyone want to set it up?

I think the beginning of wisdom is to recognise that it was always the case that we were bound up in the future of Iraq. People describe it as a war of choice or as a decision to intervene. We were always involved with Iraq. Not only were we always involved with it, we were always responsible for the state of affairs there because of a long history of on the whole, rather bad statecraft. So the fact is a maimed and wrecked Iraq was in our future no matter what. And it’s going to stay in our future no matter what. I would have thought that the beginning of wisdom, to repeat myself, is to realise there’s no such thing as leaving it. You can’t dump it. It would be like pretending it wasn’t on the map at all.

Transcript of interview on Aussie TV here.

Video here (broadcast: 13/09/2007).

hAT TIp: John

The Roman Catholic archbishop of Cologne has closely followed a TV talk show host in obliquely paying tribute to Nazi ideology.

Cardinal Joachim Meisner has caused a row in Germany by referring in a finely scripted sermon to degenerate (“entartete”) modern art that had become estranged from worship. The bishop prefers figurative icons and stained-glass windows featuring representations of caucasian christs nailed to trees, and virgins looking all meek and, well, virgin-like.

The difference between Dr Meisner and the now former TV celebrity Eva Herman is that the priest will no doubt retain the full support of his boss.

“Not too much to ask, is it?’