Alea iacta est

I kinda figured.

You are The Devil

Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession

The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.

Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild - or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Sydney after Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide? I'm so very unsurprised.

According to the Economist, cities in Canada and Australia are the most liveable places in the world.

For the record, I'm surprised Sydney appeared on the list at all. It's a bit of a shithole.

Then again, shows how truly crap the rest of the world is.

Pornography of the Elders of Zion

Doubt it many will, but it seems Israel provides a very valuable service for the Arab World.

Seems a lot of Arab men have a fantasy about being roughed up by some Mossad babe. Then again, they might be on to something...

We'll do better this time, we promise

Look, I have no idea why 80,000 Indonesians turned up to a rally to urge for the Caliphate to be raised from its well-deserved grave, but the fact they did truly illustrates people have no idea about the history of their own religion, let alone others.

When the Young Turks euthanasised the old Caliphate, they probably inadvertently saved the lives of millions of Muslims, allowing them to live in relative freedom, rather than under the "united rule" of some old dope with a silly hat.

I mean, seriously, the last couple of Caliphs were a bunch of inbred, obese and alcohol-sodden losers. Hardly the folk you'd expect to usher in a glorious new age of religious exultation.

Check 'em out.

Bunch of chinless wankers with silly facial hair, if you ask me.

I have no idea who the neo-Kilafat movement reckon they're going to appoint as their glorious leader, but odds are they'll pick a dud.

Ah! The wonders of reactionary religious nostalgia!

Debunking Third World Myths

Forget all you thought you knew about the third world, the actual statistics show something far more interesting.

The biggest story, of course, has been the collapse of third world birth rates since the 1970s. In fact, they've fallen quicker than they did in the Industralised World.

And, as if it really needed to be said, the example of Mauritius shows that globalisation and free trade work, despite what the "anti-globalisation" idiots say.