Today Obama has been touring around the UK, trying to ensure and develop the special relationship between the two countries.

It got me thinking though; when Obama meets the Queen what will he really be thinking behind all those pleasant smiles and lame little bows?

Here is a son of a man from Kenya (a former British colony) who now stands as his country's first African American President - a position absolutely at odds with the hereditary and unelected nature of the woman he has to shake hands with. 

Her family stood idly by while his was oppressed (see his distant Irish roots for further emphasis) yet now he has infinitely more influence than the Queen's reserve powers.

So what will he be thinking?

You're time is over old lady?

This is what progress looks like?

Sucked in, you're looking at the real King?

What do you think? Will Obama's background enter his mind when he's meeting his antithesis? Tell us and remember...Disqus!   . . read more

Since the days of Alexander the Great, binge drinking has been a very popular past time - leading to him apparently killing a friend and burning down Persepolis while drunk.

Those are some Great shoes to fill.

Yet, governments, schools and the media have repeatedly tried to teach us of binge drinking's dangers. 

Dartmouth University has taken the lead, instigating a new nationwide policy to curb heavy drinking by their students.

Pour me another glass.

Binge drinking is defined as "the consumption of five or more drinks in a row by men — or four or more drinks in a row by women — at least once in the previous 2 weeks. Heavy binge drinking includes three or more such episodes in 2 weeks."

Seems I don't know anyone who isn't a heavy binge drinker.

Do you think this definition should be changed or should we change people's attitudes? Or should you follow HPD's no fools guide to drinking a lot but not dying?  . . read more

Today it has been announced that LimeWire will be forced to pay $105mil to the music industry; effectively ending them as a destroyer of copyright, file sharing and children's morals.

A statement by the U.S government says "that they are pleased with the result and are happy to add one more to the tally of pirates killed in the last month". 

Dr. Peter Cancion-Ladrón from Durham University has come out and said that like al-Qaeda, this may only represent the death of a figurehead and that musical piracy is like a hydra - cut a head off and another will quickly grow in its place.

George W. Bush was shaken at hearing this news and asked "so, how many heads does terrorism have now?" 

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Naturally, every politician inside the American Beltway misses the aforementioned contradiction and agrees with Dick Cheney that the Russians must not be allowed to have their way. After all, it is Washington's world now and, even if there is hardly a horse's hair worth of difference between the governments in Washington and Moscow, Moscow can not be allowed to think that it can be Washington's equal on the world stage.

It is in historical moments like this that the citizen can truly see how little they matter. We have two powerful regimes trifling over a piece of territory that most of the world could care less about. Both of these regimes have proven that they are more than willing to kill thousands of people, destroy hundreds of square miles of land and water, and waste billions of dollars in doing so just so they can establish their position in their battle to control their world. It is their world because no matter how it turns out they will profit and we will pay. [More] . . read more