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It isn't really. It's a rewording of a passage taken from the book Mrs. Dymond by Anne Isabella Ritchie. It was written sometime in the late 19th century. Here's the original: "He certainly doesn't practise his precepts, but I suppose the patron meant that if you give a man a fish he is hungry...

It certainly isn't a conspiracy theory. Sting operations are frequently used by law enforcement on all manners of criminals. I remember a story here in the States about a Muslim man they fooled into believing he was going to blow up a city Christmas tree lighting party. The feds pretended to be...

In case anyone is wondering, the first social network in the style of Myspace and Facebook (ie. web of friends) was Six Degrees, and it was started by Andrew Weinrich -- an American. I figure Genesis knows that. He's in the field, after all.

Excellent. That means our secret knock-out gas asteroid can continue as planned.

I've heard of this. Apparently the US is going to fill the asteroid with knock-out gas. When the asteroid comes down, everyone in Russia will be put to sleep and then America will sneak in and replace Putin with a robot impostor that speaks only in rhyme.

Oh, come off it. Those Wiki articles cite their sources.

I figure Americans should be angry about this, too. After all, wouldn't they want their tax money to be spent on spies that aren't so careless as to be caught?

Aha! Proof that the West is doomed! This is the end for the parasitic imperialist dogs.

I never much understood the fascination with vodka. It feels like everyone drinks it in the US, but from what I've seen, the mark of a good vodka is a smooth finish and lack of flavour. I suppose that's fine if you're just looking to get a bit pissed, but if I'm drinking, I want to taste...

And probably scarred over the majority of his body. His quality of life from here on out is likely to be awful. It's unfortunate people go to such lengths to be heard, but I suppose it's sometimes necessary.

Define "alright."

It's hard to believe people would go to the trouble of learning English and then waste it by engaging in such meaningless conversations.

So this is what passes for terrorism these days? No one ever tells me anything.

No, it's a church. It was built by the RCA, but they sold it to the Catholic church a few years ago. Here's the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, the largest of the great Anglican cathedrals. You may notice from the picture that it isn't actually finished yet. They've been building this...

I'd definitely take that $30,000 Audemars Piguet over an iWatch any day. Well, I suppose I'd prefer a Blancpain Villeret for that kind of money, but still. Nothing beats a quality timepiece.

This piece is a pretty drastic change for Ms. Noonan since the days when she cheerfully wrote "Iraq's liberation will be the biggest good thing to happen since 9/11" and "with the successful prosecution of the war, the world will be safer." Another great one is "We will have helped the Mideast...

A flawed news story reporting on a flawed study. Never thought I'd see the NHS listed as being the best at anything.

The headline is misleading, because it's wrong. I've actually read the Commonwealth Study, and it doesn't rank the US last in quality of care. Out 11 industrialized nations, the United States places 5th in quality. The US admittedly still places last overall, but not in quality. That dubious...

Why would the US government pay people to downvote RT when they could just write some software to do it automatically?