In this fortnight's installment of the premier pro-Western political satire podcast in the English speaking world (not the most fiercely contested category, granted, but we like to keep the flag flying) we hear about the decline of the West from Asia Times columnist "Spengler".

 

He recently outed himself as actually being David Goldman, who is a harpsichordist of some note, an economist, writer, history buff and general Renaissance man. I didn't ask him to rub his belly and pat his head at the same time, but I'm pretty confident he would be perfectly capable of doing so, while simultaneously chiding me for my sloppy comparison of the modern European Union with the Plains Indians in the 1890s. Warning - don't even think of trying to out-clever this man.

 

I think my IQ shot up by ten points just by being in the same room. Yes, yes, I know, that would be a promotion from moron to merely being as thick as two short planks, most amusing, see I can fill in your inevitable comments before you even make them.

 

Meryl Yourish is along to try to count the number of Czars President Obama has created (hint: WAY more than the Romanovs!) and in blog news we bring you the cheerful news that British soldiers will now train with blanks instead of live rounds. Next year the MOD expects to equip combat regiments with the latest Labour Party approved non-lethal firearms that have a stick inside them which pops out when your pull the trigger and a flag with the words "Bang" unfurls. I think the idea is that Johnny Taliban will die laughing.

 

Hamas objects to a history curriculum containing history, on the grounds that it's a part of history they don't much care for. Hamas clearly are in the running to take over curriculum development for several formerly western nations. Some say that actually happened years ago, we just weren't paying close attention.

 

We have an entry which we think will win top prize in World's Most Unintentionally Hilarious Suicide Bombings, the Muslim Public Affairs Committee in the UK, in yet another example of Do As I Say, Not As I Do, objects to a political candidate on racial grounds (no prizes for guess which race), and David Thompson brings us more examples, as if more were needed, of the decadence and depravity that is modern academia. I mean, who wouldn't want to get front row seats to a seminar on: Embodying Posthumanist Intersectionality and Resisting Transhumanist ‘Enhancement’ Through Feminist Veganism? Uh, can anyone translate that into English? Should we even make the attempt?