I stopped reading the HP books after about the third one, because by that time Jo Rowling was allowed to more or less dispense with any kind of editor and the books were turning into overblown bricks… (View Post)

Especially when you make it up and include gratuitous, faintly repulsive and totally inaccurate sexual titbits. A petard was a small bomb, and that is precisely what your spoofistic lieola deserves. (View Post)

I have been a subscriber the The Economist for decades, but increasingly it is becoming unreadable. They used to be generally astute, now they are not even as astute as other media outlets. When they… (View Post)

I think the staggeringly crass behavior of the American crowds has rather fired up the Europeans... But then these are the kind of Americans who think the creepy, humorless, criminally vulgar dullard… (View Post)

Mostly US craft beer is pretentious and silly and you end up with 8% giraffe flavoured witch pee. The US craft beer "revolution" is mostly uninteresting. Go around the beer festivals across… (View Post)