Co-chief executive Lisa Henson said it was the perfect time for a new Fraggot adventure “celebrating diversity and promoting world peace”. Fraggot Rock was shown worldwide and ran for five series in the 1980s. “Fraggot Rock has remained a favourite project at our company and has certainly continued to be loved by its many devoted fans, so we are thrilled to begin work on this project,” said Ms Henson. The

Loonbat Iranian President Ahmablahblahblah threatens supporters of Israel on Jerusalem Day. Iran’s president has warned that Muslims around the world will take revenge on states who supported Israel against the Palestinians. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad again questioned the extent of the Holocaust, when German Nazis murdered six million Jews. Israel was founded on “claims about the Holocaust” for which the Palestinians were paying the price, he told a rally. He was speaking

“Oh man, will these speeches never end?  I want to go read the News!”

Things you should know before you do something you’ll regret.

I caught a little of Good Morning America to find that Diane Sawyer is in North Korea, where she is breathlessly witnessing staged performances by North Korean intelligence agents dressed in peasant/worker costumes.  For anyone who lived through the 1980s—or the 1930s, if you recall the journalism of Walter Duranty —this type of story follows a predictable plot line.  American journalist goes to foreign land, and finds that despite the

From a sockpuppet reader: Dear Sully: As a tiresome tireless crusader voice opposing torture, you know how much it lowers us as a people to inflict mental distress on others by making them listen to Christina Aguilera and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. So imagine my horror when I discovered that you—Andrew Sullivan—had sprung a blog post on the Pet Shop Boys upon your remaining, unsuspecting readership.  I nearly drowned

Holy crap!  Can you believe this? US shows signs of net addiction 14% of respondents said they cannot stay away from the internet More than one in eight adults in the US show signs of being addicted to the internet, a study has shown. “Addicts” showed signs of compulsive internet use, habitually checking e-mail, websites and chat rooms. More than 8% of the 2,513 respondents to the Stanford University phone

Foley:  “Mmmm.  What I wouldn’t give to soak down deep into all those soft, beautiful holes of yours, you supple little dish sponge, you.  Or maybe I could just, you know—watch as you rub yourself over a small, oil-soaked fry pan until it glistens like a young Nordic boy fresh from his bath… “Would you be into something like that, do you think?  If I bring the Ouzo and the

Radical Islamic stingrays have been implicated in a series of attacks, including the one that killed Australian “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin last month.  In the latest twist, an 81-year-old US man was stabbed in the chest by a flying suicide ray, and was taken to the hospital, where he’s in critical condition after having most of the poisonous barb removed.  Some have claimed that the stingray shouted “Allahu akbar!” as

What’s news about it is that they put it in their headline: Hezbollah accused of cluster use Then the backpedalling begins . . . The Israeli Arab village of Mghar was hit several times in the war Both Hezbollah and Israeli forces fired cluster munitions during the recent conflict in Lebanon, according to the group Human Rights Watch. The Islamist militant movement used far fewer cluster weapons than Israel, HRW