Image: AP Photo/Maxim Shemetov.
Careful Vladimir. Pussy Riot are finding support in all kinds of unexpected places. This woman may present herself as an obedient young Olympian, but how do you know she’s not hiding a balaclava under her bouquet, ready to yank out before she bursts into song? Precedent says you’d have to arrest her.
That’d be awkward.
Verdicts in on Friday. Follow my Twitter for updates.
Image: JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/GettyImages.
Things would have probably ended quite differently in the David & Goliath story if Goliath had been driving an armoured earth mover.
But judging from this image, taken during the weekly protest at Kufr Qaddum, near Nablus this morning, it’s going to take another 2000 years or so to resolve this conflict.
That should give us enough time to work out those pesky funding disparities.
Images: REUTERS/Tom Lynn.
Six people were shot dead yesterday morning at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
This is less than three weeks after 12 people died in Aurora, Colorado, and brings the total number of civilians murdered in spree killings in the US in the last five years to 86. That tallies nicely with the 85 civilians PER DAY killed in incidents involving firearms
I began this post imagining I would round it off by asking how many deaths would have to accrue before gun control reform would be enacted. I’m not going to bother now, because clearly casualties have no influence on a situation with so much power is at stake.
What a dumbass I am.
How come the dangerous punk revolutionary is dressed more appropriately for court than her guard? Image: AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko.
Clearly punk feminist collective Pussy Riot knew that they would face severe punishment for attempting to sing a protest song inside a Russian Orthodox church while wearing badly knitted balaclavas. Presumably they were counting on the heavy handed treatment meted out to them by the Russian authorities being picked up by the global media, encouraging high profile figures from the music community to offer their support and further publicise their cause.
Ooh look! It’s Sarah Palin, 9th Governer of Alaska! She’s noted for her wise and considered decision making, isn’t she? Image via storify.
Since US restaurant chain owner Dan T. Cathy spoke of his family’s support for organisations opposed to gay marriage, his company, Chick-fil-A, has become a focal point for protests by both camps and the hashtag of choice for homophobes.
Image via @CartoonBeardy Twitter.
People! We’re trying to convey an image of competence and composure in front of a global audience! Who let Boris out again?!
Britain. We’re Great, we are. Image: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images.
In a departure from the usual cynicism and snark you come here to enjoy, I would like to present a list of things that have given me cheer in the last week or so. This is no way indicative of a change in direction for the site, it’s more of an experiment – the ‘Vol 1’ of the title is rather more in hope than expectation, as it’s entirely more satisfying to be sarcastic about events than to try to find a positive.
See point 1 for more details.
Continue reading “Reasons To Be Cheerful, Vol I: The Misanthropist Strains For A Smile”
H/T to guidofawkes.
I promise I will stop posting cynical comments about the Olympics after this, but it would be a dereliction of duty not to post this video of Jeremy Hunt nearly braining a passer-by as he gets into the spirit of things.
Magnificent.
Image: Chris Jackson/WPA Pool/Getty Images.
Head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, gives London’s Olympic preparations the once over at a gathering of ‘international movers and shakers’. Or insanely rich people, if you prefer.
Images: femen.livejournal.com.
If you’re a European leader with a misogynistic agenda, the chances are you’re going to be receiving a surprise visit from FEMEN at some point in the future.
You know that being photographed fighting with a naked woman is not going to be the best publicity for your cause. But how do you plan for it? How can you fight the reality that most paparazzi have a Pavlovian response to nipples and will follow them wherever they may roam?
Well, you don’t become Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow if you’re some sort of slouch, y’know. The big bearded head of the Russian Orthodox Church, having effectively stepped in front of the FEMEN bus by condemning Russian band Pussy Riot for performing in a church, took evasive action – appointing Adrian Chiles in a Liverpool FA Cup 1996 suit as his head of security.
And it bloody worked! Look! There’s a photo above of a half naked woman wrestling with a bunch of priests on the tarmac at Borispol airport near Kiev, and all I can look at is that damn guy and his outfit.
Keep up the good work, FEMEN. If you continue creating photo opps like this,the world will listen and we should have misogyny kicked within a year. Then we can move on to crimes against fashion together.
Kelly Welles 