There are gasps all round. It's over the EU’s so-called dirty movie.

The latest promotional video from Brussels shows European citizens engaged in enthusiastic congress, but it is not the sort of union the founding fathers had in mind.

The film, available on the European commission’s space on YouTube, the video website, shows 18 couples having sex.

The video opens with a man and woman ripping each other’s clothes off in the bedroom while bottles rattle on a shelf. In the interests of sexual equality, two of the couples are gay.   more »

Is "Tambourine" legal?

Have you guys heard this thing?

I cannot remember the last time a song

left me so powerless

When it's on, I have no choice but to dance

And what if it came on while I was driving?

Or operating on someone? Disaster

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Keywords: eve, dance, beats, music, hiphop

So happy birthday America. Blow up fireworks (illegal in most states) that were made in China. Wave flags that were made in China.

Celebrate the overthrow of a tyrant as we ignore the creation of a homegrown variety tyrant of our own.

At least this tinpot tyrant budding in the White House has learned from his namesake.

There can be no overthrowing of the new one - and not just because the people are too comfortable and concerned with Paris Hilton, sports and television to care.   more »

Every time I see this repeated local news story, I briefly imagine myself contacting Soldier X's parents to say something along the following lines:

This is nonsense. Your son died in the execution of a dirty, unjust, colonial and rich man's war for politics, oil and empire and you enabled it.

You didn't do your job as parents, which is to protect your child. You didn't inoculate Soldier X against the lies of warmongers like Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowotiz, Rice and the rest.

You bought into all the transparent Iraq War nonsense about 'weapons of mass destruction' (WMD), the equally ridiculous subsequent claims to be exporting 'democracy' and all the rest (Street 2007a).

You foolishly trusted the War Masters and you passed this deadly and dangerous habit of obedience on to your children, setting them up to be cannon fodder for abominable war criminals. Shame on you!"

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It has been a truly moving experience

to witness the concern and compassion

the president of the United States

can show towards a convicted felon

Particularly someone accused of such

grave offences as Scooter Libby,

Cheney's former chief of staff

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Keywords: commute, libby, bush, satire