:: News Felch ::

I'm getting increasingly bored with wall-to-wall War coverage. My mission today therefore has been to scour the interweb thingy for the finest news links known to man, to inform, educate and amuse you, o non-existent reader. Apologies to Chris Morris for nicking the header...

My first foray into the news swamp is unashamedly war related. At least it comes from the PopBitch message board. A post from early this morning, which details the interaction between "moiness", a PB regular, and the proprietor of a rather unsavoury US site:

www.dontsupporttraitors.com
A response (this has not been edited and I didn't mention Popbitch)... QUOTE Moiness, The actors that have bombarded us with their views have a forum only because of their celebrity status. This website is our forum to respond to those views. To be perfectly honest with you, I could care less what the rest of the world thinks. We have gotten an overwhelming positive response in the States and that is all that matters to me!! I would be happy to put a link to your lovely little site(It is popbitch.com right?)and let you see how hard we are laughing at you. Chris Taylor UNQUOTE I had emailed him to suggest that as the land of the free has this thing called Free Speech that prehaps people might be entitled to come out against the war.
moiness, 7:34 8/4

In Pop News, Russian lesbitarian chanteuses, t.A.T.u. have been making waves in Germany. Ever-reliable tabloid Das Bild claims in this article that the two are set to be disqualified from this year's Eurovision Song Contest for being too explicit. It goes on to explain how the two pseudo-Sapphos are hoping to masturbate with their microphones on stage. If you can't read German, then tough shit - I'd love to see how google would translate this.

This week's Corporate Bollox section heralds the end of BT "piper" logo. The not-particularly-loved lycra-suited spanner-handed tooting gimp is set to be replaced by a "strange collection of coloured discs, which is designed to symbolise the connected world". This BBC article has all the info, together with a section for you to post your condolences online.

The b3ta Bulletin demonstrates (once again) my shamelessness and lack of originality in nicking their funniest images. Still, I have yet to find another site which so consistently makes me giggle at work...

Fears that this is all getting too frivolous are not to be realised by the Current Affairs pages. Here, George Monbiot explains in The Guardian that the Americans are prepared to use chemical weapons in the Iraq war, an ill-judged and sinister reflection on Bush's two-faced policies on "morality" and "justice". Only time can tell how history will record the Tale of Two Dicatators.

Speaking of hypocrisy, but on a thankfully lighter note, Ssssh! Gossip!!! analyses the Daily Mail's attitude to stardom. Apparently it is perfectly acceptable to show this picture of 17-year-old Charlotte Church's breasts (when on holiday with her boyfriend), whilst blaming all of societies ills on increasingly pornographic TV output. Not to mention those racial minorities, single mothers and assorted pooves who are disrupting the family unit. As a fully-paid up lentil-eating Guardian reader, I hope the fuckers choke on their full English breakfasts before they even get to the Belsen Diet Plan espoused a few pages later. Get the full story here.

In International News we examine three stories which are keeping the US public pumped full of saccharin while the body-bags roll home. First up is this amusing trifle, which tells of a bizarre traffic hold-up and a skunk with a Coke can stuck on its head. Luckily Sgt Don Gaydosh (I kid you not) is on the case... Anger management is the theme of this next article: when you want to shout at someone, take a trip to the loo and make it all better... Last of all is a tale of white trash woe - some guy got killed by his neighbour for wanking in public...

And finally... in the And Finally section, we have the new that TV Go Home has been updated for the second time in a month after near extinction - see also their war special. This reminds me of Bad Horsey's dig at PopBitch, PB Go Home, from some while back...Also what to do in the event of an emergency attack, here and some odd "impressions" of cheese

That's it. I'm linked out for the day.