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A report in one of yesterday's papers cited a report that says Olympics 2012 will cause more gridlock than expected. Bring on the four-hour crosstown bus journey!

Over on Rick Santorum's website -- his official candidate page, not this one -- the race for the GOP nomination takes another tasteful turn. Rick is proposing a MONEYBOMB to propel him to the nomination, like a wad of semen spurting towards a hairy arse hole. Interestingly, one of the perks of...

We better enjoy these streams while they last. If the US congress gets its way, Dissensus will be shut down for hosting links to copyrighted material under its Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). I think this deserves another thread, probably in Technology. But in case you're wondering...

Thanks for that article, Padraig. I'd like to hear what Romney supporters like about their man, and if there are any such people who aren't also connected to large corporations. It's as though his electoral campaign, much like the Conservatives and Labour in the past, is to present himself as...

I don't understand why the candidates whose sole candidacy was mostly to throw themselves in the way of a Romney nomination endorse him as soon as they drop out. It's not as though they believe there's a potential job in a 'Romney administration' on the line. Or maybe they are as deluded as they...

Yes.

Is Trident a domestic policy?

Changing the angle of the thread slightly, what are the most artistic porn movies out there? Whenever I suggest watching porn with a girl, they always seem turned off by the cheapness and crassness of it. It would be good to find something that's a little more tasteful, but still too explicit to...

I never understood the appeal of the opening ceremony. No sport is played, just an army of people in tracksuits walking round a track holding flags and the organisers basking in the glory of their achievements. I can't decide if the Olympics or the high speed rail thing are the most wasteful...

That video is truly disgusting, it makes me want to chunder. Mitt Romney really does have the smirk of a guy who enjoys sending the bailiffs round to people's houses. So not only are corporations people, but these 'people' are now allowed to spend unlimited amounts on campaign donations and...

Have a look at my other articles about politics if you like, but the prose is a little dreary for your tastes.

p.s. the son of the Tory cabinet minister who has been hired by Bell Pottinger was in my politics classes at university. His name is Jimmy McLoughlin, and here is his Facebook if you'd like to send him a message letting him know your thoughts. I'm sure he'd love to hear your views...

The trouble is, there's a difference -- albeit subtle and sometimes they overlap -- between party donations and lobbying. Anyone, and usually specific groups or individuals, can donate to a party. So for example, David Sainsbury donated a shed-load of money to New Labour, and Tony Blair gave him...

Oh lord. What did I do wrong to incur his wrath? Make a comment about the Olympics. In deadwood prose, no less. Chin up and keep reading my articles.

Lecture? Oh, great sage, please be my teacher. Lecture me til the cows come home.

So we're saying hosting the Olympics is a good thing because it was a kind of accidental stimulus for the economy? That kind of makes sense, if you believe that we couldn't have done more for the economy with the however many billions that are being spent on an event that lasts one month. As...

Each host country gets to introduce a couple of sports as Olympic events as a one-off. So for example, we could technically choose snooker, darts or 20Twenty cricket -- the logical choices because we're good at darts and snooker, and cricket is the national summer sport that fans go mad about...

Yep just seen it, and it's brilliant. Like you, I have spent some time catching up on the latest developments. I'm not sure a sequel is warranted, unless it features more of the deliciously despicable Billy Mitchell. Have you ever played Donkey Kong? I haven't, but would like to try. It looks...

This guy satirised Rand Paul pretty well during his Senate campaign. NeanderPaul says, "Abolish all laws!"

I don't know how long it can continue if t keeps churning out guys like this: