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Mike Tyson : marijuana marketing and short-term memory loss

Mike Tyson smokes a lot of marijuana. When former boxer told listeners to his Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson podcast that he and co-host, former NFL player Eben Britton, burn about 10 tons … (read more)

Posted: 15th, August 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, The Consumer | Comment

Transfer balls: Alderweireld rockets down

The BBC says Tottenham’s Belgium defender Toby Alderweireld, 30, will leave on a free transfer at the season’s end. The Sun backs up this news. That’s the same Sun which … (read more)

Posted: 14th, August 2019 | In: Back pages, Sports, Spurs | Comment

Sydney terror attack : four lads with a milk crate and never forgetting Ignacio Echeverría

Apparently Mert Ney, the man at the centre of the Sydney stabbing, might have yelled “Allahu Akbar”. Some observers say the 21-year-old man’s pronunciation suggests he is unfamiliar with the phrase. … (read more)

Posted: 13th, August 2019 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

Sarah Silverman fired for making jokes in blackface in 2007

Who need context in the age of offence taking? American comic Sarah Silverman told listeners to The Bill Simmons Podcast about how the knowing came for her. She once posed … (read more)

Posted: 13th, August 2019 | In: Celebrities, News | Comment

Jeffrey Epstein: tortured to death in New York’s gulag

The New York Post invites readers to “Meet Jeffrey Epstein’s gang of accused slave ‘recruiters’”. Alleged. Nothing proven. Just to be certain of this: whatever the conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s … (read more)

Posted: 13th, August 2019 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

Rowing back technology : Navy abandons touch screens

The USS Fitzgerald collided with a Filipino-flagged container ship in Tokyo Bay

All the chatter about hacks and data harvests makes you wonder: was it all better in analogue? The … (read more)

Posted: 12th, August 2019 | In: Technology | Comment

CCTV nation: spying on kids are they gain independence is unspeakably sad

Screw solitude and giving loved ones space. Parents who like to video tape their child’s every move can now monitor and keep records of their lives when they’re away at … (read more)

Posted: 12th, August 2019 | In: News, Technology | Comment

Jeffrey Epstein: Ghislaine Maxwell, sex and money

Jeffrey Epstein – Cosmopolitan’s most eligible batchelor – 1980

This and that, they must be the same What is legal is just what’s real What I’m given to understand Is … (read more)

Posted: 12th, August 2019 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

We all know who killed Jeffrey Epstein

Convicted child molester Jeffrey Epstein knew a lot of very rich, very needy and very vain people. He’s dead. How he died is matter of conjecture: he was found dead … (read more)

Posted: 11th, August 2019 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

Jeffrey Epstein : Clinton, Prince Andrew and the smoking gun

We never did see any video – The NE is often wrong; but it can be right

“Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.”So says Buckingham Palace in … (read more)

Posted: 11th, August 2019 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, News, Royal Family | Comment

Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton exhale : Jeffrey Epstein is dead

Convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his New York prison cell. He was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Suicide? So they say. But he was on … (read more)

Posted: 10th, August 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, Politicians, Royal Family | Comment

Dmitriy Andreychenko is the vainest man in America

Dmitriy Andreychenko is a vain idiot. Days after mass murder in the streets of Dayton and a Walmart in El Paso, Andreychenko walked into a branch of Walmart in Missouri … (read more)

Posted: 10th, August 2019 | In: News | Comment

Arsenal pair forced out by security fears

Can we speculate about the “further security incidents” keeping Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac out of Arsenal’s squad for tomorrow’s Premier League game at Newcastle United? There have been “credible … (read more)

Posted: 10th, August 2019 | In: Arsenal, News, Sports | Comment

Fairground workers say Norwich Cathedral ride is rigged

‘Down and down and down you go, where it stops, hell knows’

The country’s fairground workers might wonder how fair it is that Norwich Cathedral has installed a full-size helter skelter … (read more)

Posted: 9th, August 2019 | In: News, Strange But True | Comment

Multi-millionaire Jeremy Corbyn attacks Boris Johnson’s ‘Millionaire Friends’

Jeremy Corbyn never made it to the big Google climate shindig. As a man with an estimated net worth of £3million, chances are he wasn’t rich enough to afford a private … (read more)

Posted: 9th, August 2019 | In: Money, News, Politicians | Comment

Did Israeli lander leave life on the moon?

When in April an Israeli lander crashed on to the moon’s surface, it was carrying dehydrated tardigrades, aka ‘water bears’ – microscopic creatures with a unique protein that enables them to survive intense levels of … (read more)

Posted: 9th, August 2019 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment

Transfer News: Alex Iwobi joins Everton from Arsenal for £34m

Everton never did Wilf Zaha, the brilliant Crystal Palace winger. Instead they’ve shopped around and hired Arsenal’s Alex Iwobi for around £40m. The Arsenal academy product and Nigeria international has … (read more)

Posted: 8th, August 2019 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

Still I Rise : Maya Angelou resurrected to sell helicopters to billionaires

‘A private chopper is a human right’

How do you celebrate the life and thoughts of Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014), the American poet and civil rights … (read more)

Posted: 8th, August 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, The Consumer | Comment

David Luiz joins Arsenal for £8m

Arsenal have signed David Luiz from Chelsea on a two-year deal for £8m. The 32-year-old Brazil centre-back will be at Emirates for medical today.

This is great move for the … (read more)

Posted: 8th, August 2019 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Sports | Comment

To the amusement park with Fernando Livschitz

In Beautiful Chaos, by Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films, a trip to the amusement park takes an unexpected twist.

Spotter: Livschitz on Vimeo and Instagram.

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Posted: 8th, August 2019 | In: The Consumer | Comment

Transfer News: Arsenal sign Kieran Tierney from Celtic for £25m

Exciting times at Arsenal who’ve singed Glasgow Celtic defender Kieran Tierney. The fee is a Sottish transfer record. Age 22, Tierney has won every honour in the Scottish game. The … (read more)

Posted: 7th, August 2019 | In: Arsenal | Comment

Pass the Duchy: Luxembourg wants to legalise marijuana and let 12-year-olds smoke it

Things to do in Luxembourg No. 2: get stoned. The Grand Duchy wants to be the first nation in the European Union to legalise weed. The country’s Health Minister, Etienne … (read more)

Posted: 7th, August 2019 | In: News | Comment

Arsenal in for Chelsea defender David Luiz

Arsenal have made moves to hire Chelsea defender David Luiz. The 32-year-old Brazilian’s Chelsea contract runs until 2021. He only signed that deal in May 2019. Reports from France says … (read more)

Posted: 7th, August 2019 | In: Sports | Comment

Arsenal fan Carl Jenkinson joins Nottingham Forest

Carl Jenkinson has joined Nottingham forest. He wasn’t the greatest talent to play for Arsenal. But he supported the club and lived the dream, joining the Gunners in 2011. That … (read more)

Posted: 7th, August 2019 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

Arsenal : £60m plus Emile Smith Rowe for Upamecano; Mustafi on his way

Having damned Arsenal as “skint”, the Sun now bills them as “DESPERATE” in reaction to the Gunners’ £65m bid of Leipzig centre-back Dayot Upamecano. You may recall when Arsenal had … (read more)

Posted: 7th, August 2019 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

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