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Looks like these guys have found the way to fame. I had a post about them a couple of weeks back with their 2007 hit Shut your eyes . This ...

Things are looking okay, since some people just make a career of being clueless. UPDATE: ADOLF LEARNS BROWN BEAT CROAKLEY. MFBB.

Regular reader Joanne linked to this story from Herb Denenberg over at The Bulletin : Obama, The Emperor, Has No Clothes We’ve Reached The...

It's happening in a less obvious way than in our neigboring countries, but it's happening, alright. Via François Desouche , a photo ...

I actually intended to do a small post on another subject but the urgency of the situation in Haiti trumped that. As it is now crystal-clear...

If you thought Geert Wilders' haircut was weird, how about this one? The Kinks' Dave Davies with Death of a Clown from 1967. Immor...

Marseille , December 24, 2009: Even Le Monde is noting the extremely ominous fact of the government policy of downplaying the torching of 40...

After having become aware of the scale of the terrible disaster in Haiti, a post like this one seems appropriate. Close to 100,000 dead, and...

After all the clatter and the buzz and the frantic activities of another working day, I find myself dreaming of walking... ... here. Snowdon...

Probably the best Welsh band ever, Manic Street Preachers seemed to emerge out of nowhere in 1992 with the smash hit Motorcycle Emptiness ....

NASA's Terra satellite captured the UK on January 7, as it was coping with a shitload of Global Warming: The clouds you see have a silv...

Positive trend in France: the number of cars torched on New Year's Eve is only 1,137 this time round. Or, ten down from last year. Thos...

The year 2010 did not really start well for Kurt Westergaard , the Danish cartoonist who became famous for his cartoon of a bomb-turbaned Mu...

To live and die in LA , eighties hit by the now obscure seeming band Wang Chung . It's from the soundtrack of the movie with the same st...

DowneastBlog wishes all its readers of good will, wherever they may be, a Happy and Prosperous 2010!!! MFBB.

No, I haven't seen the movie. There is no need to for me, not after reading this Fjordman review in The Brussels Journal : The hero is t...

First a 2006 number from Northern Irish/Scottish band Snow Patrol , a group formed in 1994 by Gary Lightbody , Michael Morrison and Mark McC...

Adoration of the Shepherds (1622), by Gerrit Van Honthorst , a Dutch Golden Age painter from the city of Utrecht. From Luke 2, 1-20 : "...

The six F-16 Belgian fighter-bombers operating from Kandahar Airfield currently operate low key. It seems that two flights a day suffice giv...

Roger Vernon Scruton (born 1944) is a British philosopher, author and composer. Rather a traditionalist Burkean conservative, his emphasis ...