the observers hunch

A couple of things in the last few days have motivated me to post these musings. The first is that last Tuesday a slight eye infection force...

Does anyone else get the distinct feeling of being on a sinking ship? Its like rationality after 200 years of increasingly calm seas has run...

As a penance for all the faux French bashing I do to Maud here is a video she will probably appreciate, its from Bill Mahers HBO show Real T...

A rather depressing story from the world of business. An electrical goods chain (Circuit City) in the US is firing 3400 of its staff, simply...

As many people may already know, there are big changes going on in the US at the moment because of the Democrats success in last years elect...

The BBC has an interesting article on world opinion on countries. There are no real surprises , except that the UK is generally seen as a po...

It's not that often that I am totally surprised by something, but today when I had a browse over at washingtonpost .com I almost fell o...

The blogging world (well the sentient part of it) has been all over Conservapedia this week making some hilarious discoveries. For those o...

Damn I'm glad I don't live in the states, my head would have exploded by now with the utter craven greed of the current political le...

The Philosophy of Science is not something I have really given any thought to, it always seemed so obvious what Science is that it didn'...

In the comments section of the previous post someone called Pete (thanks Pete) has made some good points that I think deserve response, I wo...

The BBC has another one of their series of stories about life in Zimbabwe. It makes really depressing reading, it really beats me how peopl...

Sometimes I get really frustrated at people that most of the time I tend to think do a pretty useful job. This is just one such case, Greenp...

I've just come across a huge bunch of great bumper stickers. Check them out here . My favourites are below. Now all I need is a car, dam...

Every once in a while a story comes along and you have to check that its not April Fools day, this is one such example from the BBC. The Pr...

More examples of White House interference in Science are beginning to appear now that the Democrats are in charge of congress. In particular...