Claire Sweeney's big fat... What exactly was Claire Sweeney's motivation to put on as much weight as possible in a short time?
9/11 2009 Project 2,996 gets round Stalin's dictum that one person's death is a tragedy while a million's is a statistic by assigning volunteers to remember one victim each. Fellow blogger Isramom's is Ronald John Hemenway.
Abigail Blackburn and the truth about pregorexia Celebrity culture eats its own children, and nobody profits more than editors like Abigail Blackburn.
The orthodoxy of orthodonty There's more to life than perfect teeth.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows From Harry Potter through such stopping points as Odysseus and back - but contains spoilers: big ones!
Save the Willow Walker English Churches Housing Group's deciison to no longer seek funding for the Willow Walker, a magazine for homeless people in Cambridge, on the grounds that its activities and articles aren't in line with ECHG's Christian ethos, will keep media theologians in beer money for years.
Tesco: single-issue campaigners in tatters It feels like the Tesco store in Cambridge's Mill Road has been there forever, and the No Mill Road Tesco campaign is already in tatters.
Top ten songs about literature You heard it here first - there was a time when hit songs were based on Shakespeare!
Don't go down the road to hell, it's jammed with bendy-buses How an amusing article by comedienne Ariane Sherine was subverted by radical militant atheists with sinister agendas.
Swine flu and the hazard of hysteria This year 500,000 people will be killed by flu. That's the number who die every year. But the hysteria being whipped up about swine flu will help gevernments advance their agenda of having their citizens accept vaccinations unquestioningly, something Kant would have disapproved of.
Top ten songs about ghost stories Storytelling is as fundamental an activity for human beings as eating or sleeping, and ghost stories are an integral part of this.
Hot gossip: Sarah Kennedy and the obvious observation Sarah Kennedy committed the closest thing to a mortal sin in the BBC by calling Enoch Powell the greatest Prime Minister Britain never had.
Why is an English village's birthrate outstripping China's? The answer is depressingly familiar, and so are some of the names that occur again and again.
Top ten songs about water
In the ancient Church, catechumenates used to meditate on water during Lent prior to their Easter baptism. I can't promise a meditation, but here's some songs and some thoughts.
Crocs, giraffes and the vagrant nerve: inside nature's giants Richard Dawkins attends the dissection of a giraffe's recurent laryngeal nerve by,among others, Joy Reidenberg, but fails to forward his agenda with the innervation of unborn vertebrates.
Golliwog-gate:the racism of anti-racists When Carol Thatcher, daughter of the former prime-minister, was accused of racism, were there sinister undercurrents at play?
Is the way to save the world lies and gloom? Only now that it's illegal to buy real light bulbs for home use are we finding the true facts about the "eco-friendly" bulbs' longeivity and dangers.
Travails of the Jabberwock Tracking the mythical beast's decline through its various incarnations from Through the Looking Glass to The Last Mimsy.
When agendas come together On why it can be wrong to permit euthanasia and to give a liver transplant to somebody who had tried to kill himself. Written before the Liverpool Care Pathway controversy, and contains a discussion of suicide.
How diverse is diversity? On a diversity course, a left-leaning friend of mine pointed out that diversity isn't a good in itself, and pointed to Adolf Hitler as the most diversity-aware leader of modern times. I'm working on putting him in touch with his inner conservative.
Advent - preparing for the preparation Meditating on the Magnificat can take you to strange places.
Master of Space and Time One of Rudy Rucker's earlier novels (1984), the author demonstrates that obituaties of science fiction are misplaced.
Underage smoking is more stupid than criminal An unorthodox but time-honoured way to discourage an underage smoker.
The ichneumon delusion Review of the first of three programmes in which Richard Dawkins ostensibly celebrates the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birh, but in reality announces his self-apotheosis.
All I want to do is shop at Tesco's A picture speaks a thousand words, but nobody says they have to be true. In the fight to keep Tesco out of Cambridge's Mill Road, this is how the Cambridge Cycling Campaign depicted a small Tesco Express store on its website.
The passions of Kiri Te Kanawa Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will soon be retiring from Opera, but will remain active in teaching singers how to produce the music she is so passionate about. Simon Cowell need not apply.
Elephants, Arthritis and Euthanasia: Inside Nature's Giants Channel 4's cerebral treatment of a post-mortem on an elephant.
Norman Tebbit and the art of Risk Former Conservative Party chairman Norman Tebbit showed a magisterial understanding of the concept of risk when he suggested voters could elect smaller parties as a reaction to the MPs' expenses crisis. Councils, schools and insurance companies take note.
Eurovision Song Contest 2009 - the music won Alexander Rybak took the prize at the best Eurovision for years. It's just a pity Terry Wogan had to retire to get the sleaze stopped.
The sum of our fears The Sum of All Fears is Tom Clancy's darkest book and, like many works that explore our shadows, his most profound.
Thanks for the link! What a lovely presentation!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Risa! This helps me keep on top of what folk are reading - and Claire Sweeney's diet has been on the top spot till January - I don't know what I can write to knock her off!
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