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This Week's Twitter Loathing Chart 27 Aug 2013 | 03:59 pm
1 (-) Jamie Oliver ( 1 week) 2 (2) Michael Gove (176 weeks) 3 (1) Stephen Fry ( 2 weeks) 4 (3) Richard Dawkins (4,712 weeks, due to an anomaly in the space-time continuum) 5 (9) Jose Mourinho 6 (-) To...
Not-Enough-Faith Lunch 26 Aug 2013 | 10:46 pm
So it has been yet another of those "special" social events. Today we have been holding a "faith barbecue". A pious twist on the old concept whereby everyone turns up with Value Pork Pies and nearly-...
Stonehenge, Hemsby - The Mystery and the Magic 25 Aug 2013 | 03:29 am
Dear Readers, it was a bit of a shock for me. Charlii has been dropping hints to me for days that I should go on a holiday, and I have been resisting it. You know the way things pile up if you don't s...
Not Suing for Copyright Infringement 24 Aug 2013 | 12:17 am
Thanks to Mike Peatman for sharing with us this picture, taken at Greenbelt this afternoon. We're not going to be resorting to the Copyright Acts, as we think certain former members of the Eastern Re...
Religious Collective Nouns 21 Aug 2013 | 03:01 pm
A failed compromise of Anglicans A pair of 8am service communicants An introspection of self-analysing blog posts An unexpected presence of clergy on their day off / on holiday A suspension of dis...
A Review of the Ministry of Women 20 Aug 2013 | 03:31 pm
I have received a letter from the Druidical Synod in response to my complaints. It reads, "Dear Burton I may have the body of a weak woman, but I have the hockey stick of a Norse Berserker. I sugges...
The Weaker Sex 19 Aug 2013 | 04:51 am
Dear Readers, I have written A Letter. It was the least that I could do. But something had to be done. Charlii is an unsuitable Archdruid, and it is time this was realised. It is not as if Archdruid ...
Keeping the Normans out of Kashyyyk 19 Aug 2013 | 01:48 am
This evening the Beaker Folk lit a tea light in honour of one of our favourite heroes. After the Normans invaded England in 1066, there were many natives who resisted. Many lost their lives, and some...
The God who Heals - a Meditation on a BBC report about Pentecostals refusing medicine for HIV 17 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
Inspired by this BBC silly season article on religious believers not accepting medical treatment for HIV "The Children's HIV Association surveyed 19 doctors and health professionals working with babi...
The Day the Help Desk went into an Existential Loop 15 Aug 2013 | 12:53 am
You may be aware, Dear Readers, that I am the manager of the Beaker Help Desk.In fact, I am the Beaker Help Desk. One day, when we have sufficient Beaker People with enough computing equipment to make...
