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10CC with I'm Mandy Fly Me . English art rock band from Manchester. A relative powerhouse in the first half of the seventies. You m...

Maybe the world is more interested in Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian or the Edwards Trial, but over here we know what was REALLY important t...

Spacehog with In the meantime . English rock band of four guys from Leeds who formed in NYC in 94. In the meantime is a single from the...

Madness with Michael Caine , from the 1984 album Keep Moving . The video is based on the 1965 movie The IPCRESS File, starring a.o. Mic...

Steyn's take on the Elizabeth Warren case is so hilarious and at the same time so spot-on that you just GOT to read it, if you haven...

Be sure to watch Part 6 of The Muslim Brotherhood in America . And yes, for some time now Grover Norquist has been on my radar. Or is ...

Back in 2004, I predicted a rightwing shift in Europe. By and large, I was proven right, a few exceptions like Zapatero's victory in Spa...

I owe my readers - those ones of good will, anyway - an apology. My earlier assertion that a gay 32-year old Belgian of Moroccan descent h...

If you're not a dinosaur I guess I'll have to explain to you that this was a monsterhit by a famous vocal group of the late sixties,...

The first confirmed murder as such, anyway. There have very likely been killings before but with death attributed to a particular planet con...

One year ago, on May 2, 2011, my father died.

Good observation by American Thinker's Rick Moran : Forward to the past . On an, ahem, very appropriate day: "What's next? Ma...

Watch Glenn Beck's new documentary dealing with the infiltration of the muslim brotherhood in the US, up into government circles. A...

The Kinks with Waterloo Sunset. May 1967. Twas one of their biggest hits. Nazareth with Love hurts . Nazareth's a Scottish...

From the nou breekt mijn klomp (well I will be damned) Department: Gaia fruitcake James Lovelock , he of 'it may be necessary to put de...

On Februari 15, two Belgian federal police officers and a convicted Moroccan criminal boarded a Royal Air Maroc plane for Morocco with the ...

Interesting article by Jake Neuman over Europenews , April 19, 2012: "...In Islam, God is a slaver, who sanctions enslaving other pe...

Don't intend to make this a music blog but it just so happened I couldn't find the time to put up a decent post last week. The Bloo...

Cranberries with Linger . Singer's Dolores O'Riordan. Babylon Zoo with Spaceman . Nite.

Years ago, when I was an engineering student in Ghent, one of my favourite courses was numerical analysis. One of the first calculation and ...