The enemies of reason (Free subscription) | yesterday
Salaried troll Andrew Alexander dangles his maggot off the riverbank in the Mail today with a piece entitled "The truth about tobacco? It's lost in a smokescreen". Pop over there and have a read if you like, but it boils down to: "I like smoking. People say it's bad for you but boo, wurrrrrgh, nur-nur-nur-nur-nur." Well maybe not quite, but: An outright lie is also...
The enemies of reason (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Professional trolls - or "prolls", as I'm inclined to call them now after hearing the term for the first time yesterday - are just bigger, more noticeable versions of those people you get on messageboards or in the comments section of news stories; and rather than doing it just to wind people up, they do it for a living. Yesterday's article by Andrew Alexander in the Mail which...
Dick Puddlecote (Free subscription) | yesterday
Never a truer word spoken by Andrew Alexander in the Wail Alas, there is something about smoking which damages the mind - of anti-smokers. Normal as they may be in other respects, they rave and rant about tobacco. And never again will he be proven so spectacularly correct in as short a period of time as today. Evidenced by mouth-frothing from psychopathic smoker hater, Duncan Bannatyne,...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | yesterday
WashingtonPost.com The theater owners get their way. During the standoff, the Post had insisted the theaters must continue to pay to list movies and showtimes in the newspapers daily Movie Directory. But the paper has now decided to provide the listings free, as a public service, reports Andrew Alexander . > July 2009: Theater chain pulls daily listings from the Post
