Joke's on you A group of Israeli cartoonists have launched a tongue-in-cheek competition to find the most anti-semitic cartoons – entry only open to Jewish cartoonists. (via MeFi)
Anthea Turner: Woman on the verge of nervous breakdown? The latest reality show format on BBC3 is perhaps the strangest ever. It’s called Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife, and for the life of me I can’t work out whether the subject under the microscope is Anthea Turner or the two non-Antheas in each episode. Quick recap if – for
Guy Verhofstadt's view on Europe Le Monde has a short interview with Guy Verhofstadt, Belgian Prime Minister, on his new book “United States of Europe”, which presents his vision for a federation of eurozone states. I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know how interesting the contents are, but I liked this
Presumed guilty The coverage of the terrible Entwistle murders has shown up the difference between US and UK reporting standards. Whereas I generally assume that the US press will be more responsible than their British cousins, I was very surprised to read the presumptions of guilt and sweeping statements in the Boston
A catalogue of errors The NYT has a collection of doccuments showing the collective failure of US and state governments to prevent the disaster in New Orleans.
Speed camera hypocrisy Nice illustration of speed camera hypocrisy in a story from today’s Argus. The residents of Brighton Road, Lancing, want speed restrictions on a stretch of dual carriageway where a pedestrian was recently killed. One resident said: “I’m not a big fan of speed cameras at all but if
Tax Cut Lunacy E J Dionne at the Washington Post lays into the administration’s fiscal indiscipline, as exemplified by the recent Budget.
Road maps, UK and Europe A great resource: ViaMichelin helped me find the location of the best ice-cream in the world (corner of Rue des Deux Ponts and Rue St. Louis-en-l’Ile, Paris). It also told me that it would take 16h01 to drive from my home to the village in Poland that my family