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A few years ago, when I needed a special self-portrait for a blog post (a photo that would show me wearing a newly-purchased Russian black-f...

Like millions of my fellow-citizens, I was shocked to learn (through an early-morning tweet) that the collision of a pair of helicopters in ...

The blog post you’ve started to read is extraordinarily trivial. Besides, there’s no way in the world that you might be able to deduce anyt...

On chilly winter evenings, my dog Fitzroy loves to sit down in front of the computer (not surprisingly, he’s a Macintosh addict) and brows...

I’m always amused and impressed by the surprising artistic creations of talented individuals, even when they’re relatively trivial.

The Lebanese-Swiss cartoonist Patrick Chappatte has authorized me to translate his French into English and to include here this pathetical...

I've written and recently published a pair of books on my family history: one about my father's side, and the other about my mother...

The heavenly creature in this 17th-century Indian miniature is known as a Buraq (Arabic term for lightning ): This is the kind of win...

For English and Australian visitors to Paris, driving has always been been a somewhat disturbing experience, because the French drive on th...

The domination of the power of fire was a huge step in the history of humanity. Today, alas, certain barbarian brutes are setting out backw...

Let’s face the facts. If we humans intend to survive on the lovely little planet Earth, then we’ll need to be imaginative. JOKE: In a ...

When my computer beeped, a minute ago, I found that my surveillance camera had sent me a nice photo of my neighbor Jackie bringing back a ...

I don’t know whether many of my compatriots have ever heard of a NSW rural township named Breeza . Here’s a wonderful photo of the Breeza la...

This is the second video instalment of Richard Dawkins reading some of his hate mail. It’s hilarious.

On Australia Day, these sheep got their act together: But this dumb ram didn’t:

I’m so stunned and embarrassed by the comical stupidity of that Abbott fellow that I don’t feel like saying anything much at all today...

It would be wonderful if the stunning victory of the extreme left in Greece could be an incentive for vast changes in Europe. On ...

Fox News has a “specialist” named Nolan Peterson (a former GI) who informed the world, last week, that there are so-called No-Go Zones i...

The Cournouze is like an old lady (or a young lady, for that matter) who has wrapped her shoulders in a white woolen shawl. Click to...

There are several fine articles in the English-speaking press that criticize the ridiculous notion that Islamophobia would be a greater prob...