It was with a little whoop of recognition that I read about rapeX, "the world's 1st and only anti-rape condom". The company's FAQ is down as I write, "due to public demand" but from what I can gather it is a toothed "female condom" that clamps down on any intromitted organ, forcing the owner of t...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.3 This week: 89.3
Tuesday 27 March: It is going to be a tough week, for this and other outlets. Too much going on, too intensely, to find much energy to write for fun.

Inexplicably, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and John Prine turned up in my Shared Downloads folder doing You Are My Sunshine.

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Neato-burrito. And if that doesn’t improve your day, nothing will. But although I searched in all the usual places I couldn’t find...

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There’s an awful lot of tosh being talked about animals on farms and in diets these days. Militant vegetarians and vegans leaped on the recent FAO report to suggest that all we need to do to halt climate change is get rid of farm animals. Al Gore, they said,¹ can’t be committed to fighting g...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.2 This week: 88.3
Tuesday 20 March: Creeping down, just about. Something odd I’ve noticed for about a month now is that I’m often a bit peckish when I get home of an evening. Not ravenous or anything, but just in the mood for some peanuts or olives or dried apricots. May...

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