torpedo the ark

Images used for the posts published on this date in 2014, 2021, and 2023     Sometimes - especially those times when, like today, I can'...

Jasper Johns: Flag (1954-55) moma.org I.  I've never been to America. But I have always loved all things American, ...

The Fatwa Boys: Salman Rushdie and Larry David  Image credit: John P. Johnson / HBO On Valentine's Day, 1989, when the rest of...

Photo of Milo Yiannopoulos by Jill Greenberg for a feature-interview by Chadwick Moore in Out Magazine (21 Sept 16) Among sev...

Torpedo the Ark opposes all forms of monarchy, including the House of Windsor. I wouldn't say I hate them, but I want them to go...

Diesel the police dog  who displayed  many  of  the virtues associated with nobility of soul In the wake of the Paris attacks, ...

  I wouldn't say I hate the Dalai Lama with the same degree of intensity as, for example, I hate Mother Teresa or Gandhi, but t...

John Keane, The Death of Theo Van Gogh (2007) www.johnkeaneart.com In November 2004, Dutch filmmaker and provocateur Theo Van...

I care - but I'm not Mother Teresa. What do I mean by this?  I mean that, for me, there is nothing remotely uplifting about...

The Amusement of the Saints in Heaven by Watson Heston Proponents of heaven and hell usually have very little to tell us about the...

Decatur Boarding the Tripolitan Gunboat (1804), by Dennis Malone Carter  Source: Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy, Washing...

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali   Flirting is one of the great joys of life, which, regardless of intent, is always an innocent form of sex...

It has been officially announced by government ministers on a visit to India that a statue of Gandhi is to be erected in Parliament...

Whilst the dietary injunction against eating pork first arose in primitive Judea, it is within the Islamic world where the pig itse...

"One should never miss an opportunity to celebrate the Enlightenment ..."  Christopher Hitchens   What is Enlightenme...

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Any figure whose work is scorned and amusingly dismissed by both Dorothy Parker and Lisa Simpson probably doe...

"There was a woman who loved her husband, but she could not live with him. The husband, on his side, was sincerely attached to his...

The creeping religiosity of everyday life here in the UK - not to mention the appalling acts of violent atrocity carried out by t...

A bird came down the walk - he did not know I saw -  he bit a little worm in half and ate the fellow, raw. I like the colou...