A little story I noticed in the Guardian the other day...
"Relatives beat a Malaysian couple to death in a ritual apparently meant to help stop the man smoking."
Well I guess it worked!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Random photos, TV, politics and anything else that comes into view
The Word According To Dan
Selected recent posts
- Why the Tories' tax break for married couples is wrong
- Train time
- My top ten tweeters of 2009
- Let The Right One In
- Christians should stand up for Carrie Prejean
- In review: Uncle Sam and Old Vic
- Flogging the dead tree press
- A prayer before dying
- Same-sex marriage and the Quakers
- Carrie Prejean and freedom of speech
- The Old Vic and the caterer
- Recipe: Bruscan chicken stew
- Old Vic catch-up
- Standing with Carrie
My politics
Blogs I read
-
-
Los Angeles employee returns from a pre-approved vacation only to get fired and denied months of earned bonuses and commissions after boss claims they're "discretionary" - An approved vacation turned into a firing, but the real battle began when earned money suddenly became discretionary. I can point out so many things that a...
-
NBA Star Tyler Herro's Ex Slams Him As She Sues For Custody, Support - NBA star Tyler Herro and his baby mama Katya Henry have split, and it's already getting nasty ... the exes are duking it out in court over custody and supp...
-
WATCH: Labour MP Asks Fellow Politics Live Panelists If They Are Trans - From the mind that brought you Parliament’s ‘Summer of Sex‘…
-
The Autumn Political Season Begins - Let's do a Sitrep! - The autumn political season has well and truly begun, with Andy Burnham facing his first parliamentary tests and the Reform UK conference having just hap...
-
Happiness - “We were not know for our smiles but every year, mom would schedule a family portrait and every year, nobody ever smiled.” (submitted by Diana) The post ...
-
EMF 2026 Scale Solar System - I cycled along a 10km scale solar system in Cambridge back in 2022 and really appreciated the sense of scale and how empty even our local bit of space is...
-
A Pretty Good Year - After the disaster that was 2023, my 2024 was pretty good, so I thought if I share the bad the least I can do is share the good! If my year had a theme, ...
-
Markets latest: GameStop closes up 68% – as it happened - *All the latest as a wild week on Wall Street, which pitted Redditors against hedge funds, comes to a close.* Read more
-
Epic DIY Chainsaw Fails Video Compilation - It’s funny that you need a license to fish, hunt, own a gun, drive a car, and work as a manicurist a nail salon, but there’s no such requirement for owni...
-
My campaign is bearing fruit. - Not sure if I can do this but I will do my best. The disease is progressing and today I have had my medication pushed up to 300 ml of Ketamine and 275ml of...
-
new look 6262, part 2 - So far it all seems to be going ok. I accidentally cut the back bodice piece a size smaller than I needed, but it still seems to fit alright so I’m not to...
-
-
RIP Benny Green – the boy who brought black Britain to a generation of schoolkids - IT'S perhaps no surprise that the death of Terry Sue-Patt, the actor who played Benny Green in the BBC school drama Grange Hill, is one of the most-read it...
-
Canon Andrew White deserves a knighthood - He doesn't care about temporal honours, of course. You only have to hear the 'Vicar of Baghdad' preach, or take a few minutes to watch the above short fi...
-
It is a Sunday, and I wanted to find my disjointed thoughts in front of me. For me. - There was an old wicker bird cage, canary yellow, that sat on some unnecessary piece of furniture in a lovely, but unnecessary room we fittingly dubbed the...
-
A Simple Noahide - This is something I learnt during my die-trying seeking for conversion to Judaism. There is a beauty in Judaism that it does not require you to be Jewish...
-
I'm off, but the struggle for civil liberties must go on | Henry Porter - With the new government promising to respect our civil liberties, I think now is a good time for me to bow out This is my last post for liberty central, a ...
-
Faith links
Amazon wishlists
Posts
Blog Archive
-
►
2010
(215)
- ► April 2010 (34)
- ► March 2010 (63)
- ► February 2010 (56)
- ► January 2010 (62)
-
►
2009
(584)
- ► December 2009 (34)
- ► November 2009 (37)
- ► October 2009 (12)
- ► September 2009 (29)
- ► August 2009 (45)
- ► April 2009 (72)
- ► March 2009 (76)
- ► February 2009 (42)
- ► January 2009 (16)
-
▼
2008
(271)
- ► December 2008 (29)
- ► November 2008 (40)
-
▼
October 2008
(25)
- Last week's X Factor
- Watched yesterday
- Watched recently
- Tatchell on Brand / Ross
- It's all over bar the voting
- Answerphonemessagegate
- Monbiot on the 'gibbering numbskulls'
- Kevin Spacey's golden age
- Watched last night
- Old Vic bits
- Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino - still a badass at 78
- Watched recently
- The Norman Conquests
- Watched recently
- The X Factor
- Bits and pieces
- I wasn't born in a manger, I was born on Krypton
- Bits and pieces
- Watched yesterday
- Daniel hearts Danielle
- Watched recently
- The X Factor
- The return of 'watched recently'
- Figures
- From the Guardian
- ► September 2008 (6)
- ► August 2008 (10)
- ► April 2008 (31)
- ► January 2008 (30)
No comments:
Post a Comment