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Oct

Funny forwards

Posted by Viren  Published in Funny

Top 10 signs you’re a fundamentalist Christian: 10 – You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours. 9 – You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with [...]

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17

Oct

The rich became the beggar, the fool became the wise

Posted by Viren  Published in Book Excerpts, Book Reviews, William S. Burroughs

I’ve been reading some of William S. Burroughs’ works, namely Naked Lunch and Junky, and I must agree with the blurb on Junky’s jacket, Junky is much more palatable than those who find ‘Naked Lunch’ tough going. Burroughs’ writing is a dowser for extreme alienation, as a member of two despised social classes for almost [...]

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14

Oct

Kill the bastards

Posted by Viren  Published in The usual

Is anyone else sick of all these periodic protests by ‘Muslims’ against things in the media? The Pope makes a speech and suddenly people in 35 countries are up in arms. Are these people really studying the content of every papal speech in German states? Make no mistake, I’m not excusing the Pope, he’s an [...]

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12

Oct

When the sun burns red

Posted by Viren  Published in The usual

Or long before it, assuming we leave no intelligent agents behind to continue the rape of our planet. Is this picture accurate? Maybe, but I bet the Earth, as a self-sustaining model can’t wait to be rid of its greatest parasite: Homo Sapiens.

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9

Oct

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Posted by Viren  Published in The usual

North Korea has the bomb. It could just be a wily manoeuvre, with the doyens in Pyongyang riding the coattails of an opportune seismic tremor. But the Russians are convinced it was an underground nuclear explosion, and Big Brother is never wrong, at least where the last few Marxist adherents are concerned. What will North [...]

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