Everything you need to know about the current state of media and "journalism" summed up in one tidy headline...

Coolest thing I saw all weekend...

Battles - IPT2 - 3D Zoetrope Mapping from Retchy on Vimeo.

Actually, that's a very good question. I think the answer is obvious, but it doesn't fit the pc multi-culti narrative, so we're not likely to hear much about it...

There's no better way to experience other cultures than through food...so get yourself around the world!

So I just returned from some business travel, which meant I had the displeasure of spending a fair number of hours in airports dealing with connections, security, and immigration. I happened to be in a sort of food court area waiting for a connecting flight, and there was music playing loud enough so you could actually hear and understand it. Well, a Clash song comes on, Police and Thieves, and there's a recurring line in the song "...guns and ammunition." And it occurred to me that you could never utter the phrase "guns and ammunition" at an airport, as you'd have some serious splainin to do if anybody in an official capacity overheard you. But what if you're just humming and mumbling along absentmindedly to a song?

And by the way, really? They're playing Clash songs at airports now? And not the later more pop friendly Clash, but the original angry punk Clash. I guess it shows the mainstreaming over time of all pop culture elements, no matter how seemingly extreme they are in their moment. I fully expect to hear unfiltered gangsta rap at airports and dentist offices in 20 years time...

Incidentally, a Bob Marley song came on after The Clash: "Get Up Stand Up". You know the song: "...stand up for your rights, don't give up the fight." If anyone around me was aware of the irony of being in a place where you have virtually no civil rights while a song about rights is playing, they kept it well hidden...

An ill-tempered 5th division match in Argentina devolves to complete farce after a couple of fights...ref gives up entirely, gets last laugh by issuing 36 red cards...Classic!

Another good reason to end public education entirely...