The Satanic Names

Facebook's fatwa against a writer who is known by his middle name fails

Do you believe in signs?

CLOSED signs

Thanx to Dave Locke on trufen

Artificial stupidity

Yahoo News attempts to appeal to the Herman Cain demographic

Thanx to Shakesville

Someone doesn't like video games

In other words, Modern Warfare 3 would be nothing but a gigantic needlework simulation were it not for the storyline, which is the most homoerotic tale ever created in any medium, including Frankie Goes to Hollywood videos. Behind the military manoeuvrings, the human story revolves around people backstabbing, bitching, making catty asides, breaking off friendships and betraying one another. Ignore the gunfire and it's like a soap opera set in a ballet school.

--Charlie Brooker

Thanx to andrewducker

Internecine

Grover Norquist considered dangerously soft on homosexuality, Islam.

Thanx to shelleybear

Zuccotti Park

If you're cynical enough to believe the Occupation couldn't have made it through the winter, then Round 1 went to the good guys. The authorities could have waited it out and gotten to spin the story as "DFHs can't take it, crawl back to Mommy & Daddy," but they panicked and gave us a Jackbooted Oppressors story instead. In the classic phraseology of the New Frontier, "We were eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow blinked."

War is peace

Catholic bishops claim attack on Religious Liberty, by which of course they mean that the state is not doing a good enough job of suppressing abortion, birth control, and same-sex marriage.

The wickedest man in the world

New theory that the curse of Tutankhamun was really ritual murders carried out by Aleister Crowley. It seems about as credible as the similar charges against Bill Clinton.

Thanx to Rosemary Edghill on Facebook.