
Myth and religion are always intertwined, never more so than the Islamic claim to Jerusalem.
Interesting read.

Happy Australia Day!
Needless to say, it's a good time to drink beer and eat the barbecued flesh of dead animals.
The most disgusting piece of mass murderer-apologetics seen yet in the Guardian is here.
You know, it is possible to modernise without killing tens of millions of people.
Yeah, I'm still alive....now officially in my mid-twenties. Yuck.
On a more positive note, I saw Tenacious D in Sydney on Tuesday night, and they most certainly did rock.
Twit.
Yeah, you dopey Malay bint, Saddam wouldn't hurt a fly.

Mr Mahathir has long been a critic of Western democracies, which he says offer too much freedom, including allowing homosexuality and same-sex marriages.
Interesting note: Homophobes often have repressed homosexual desires of their own, "Dr" Mahathir.
Nosireee....
And so, coupled with Andrew Johns playing 20Twenty, this continues the bizarre subculture of cricket which I will never understand.
I'm not annoyed that Saddam's dead. Good riddance.
I am, however, highly concerned about the manner in which he left it.
Christopher Hitchens explains why.
Simple explanation:
Executioners cheering al'Sadr = Bad News
On a similar note, this girl was either an delusional idiot, heavily brainwashed, or possibly both.
UPDATE: Charles Krauthammer agrees with me.
Truly incredible. The world's greatest living mass-murderer and this is the way they chose to get rid of him?