Mad Werner Georg Patel wants to be a politician. Here’s a classic example of his public utterances, and here and here’s him accusing me of being Spanish and English and a translator (he claimed somewhere else that I do drugs–chance’d be a fine thing…).
For the more conservative among you, here’s a picture of two trannies [...]

Following up yesterday’s Galway post, and anticipating yet more “Columbus was Catalan/lesbian/a figure of speech” lunacy on Hispanidad Day tomorrow, here’s the chain of events that led Appeals Court judge William Hughes Mulligan to plump for the Galway connection, as put in a 1972 after-dinner speech to the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick in New [...]

Via après moi, le déluge, the online collection of the Portuguese National Library, with yet another interface to learn. (Why don’t they just give their money and projects to Google?) I didn’t know that Portugal fought in the Great War, but here’s the German Master Race Spider, a Portuguese soldier, and a poster from 1923 [...]

Skip James (good piece by Matt R Lohr) exited the world in roughly the same fashion Keith Douglas entered:

Why is written music featured on birthday cards and in ads always gibberish? Don’t Barclays International care that the musically literate think them a bunch of peasants?

If we cannot believe (Lu Banglie transcript via Blood & Treasure)this guy’s eye-witness accounts, then why should we believe this? (Mr Joffe-Walt first came to attention describing the squabbling among his fellow human shields about what time to go to bed and equating Saddam and George W. One has to wonder slightly about the Guardian’s [...]