[least sexy] of the celebs, that is

One of my handful of Russian readers has seen fit to enter into the debate here and here over the Самые несексуальные женщины года.

She's not the best but I can still think of others worse amongst the celebs. See lower right:

And have you seen Julia Middleton?

[milestones] one in the offing

There's a little milestone coming up and I'm getting quietly excited about it. I can see I'll have to do a bit of work to actually get there but hope to be able to report something about Wednesday or so of next week, all being well.

By the way, speaking of "miles", hands up all those who are members of the mile high club? I nearly was on two occasions. Nearly's not good enough though, is it?

I do see where we went wrong - the main problem was that we weren't drunk and abusive enough. :)

[theo] more than just totty

Most readers don't need me to direct them but Theo Spark runs a sort of Forces Network Blogging Service and here are some of his gems:

* I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

* To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

* The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

* It was mealtime during a flight on American Airlines.

"Would you like dinner?" the flight attendant asked John, seated in
front.

"What are my choices?" John asked.

"Yes or no," she replied.

His short roundups of the week's events, in summary fashion, also have quite a following.

Regulars to Theo will understand why I refrained from stealing some of his juicier pics.

[link daze] progress report on anon

I've now completed listing the links and reading most of the material. There are 15 pages of links alone, before even thinking of the text.

Hope to have the third post out later today but the problem is how best to present it in blog form. Grappling with this one.

[dilemma] something to sleep on

Some of you will recall the nasty little incident of the Cross in a Christian chapel being locked in a cupboard on the grounds that the chapel was now for "all faiths" and that the Cross would offend.

This was a straight out assault on Christianity and was met with fierce resistance.

Now there's another assault at the same William & Mary, in the realms of the bizarre:

... the NCAA ruling that the school's logo including two green and gold feathers amounts to "hostile and abusive" imagery ...

Are the authorities total morons? Predictably, it has occasioned the handing out of tens of thousands of green and gold feathers in an act of mass defiance.

This evening I witnessed another and though the two incidents above were both contemptible, the one this evening was far more insidious.

Question, when should a blogger be stopped?

If he spouts left-wingism like Mike Ion? When he spouts atheism like Matt Murrell? When he openly calls himself the Devil and blogs from a kitchen? When he calls himself Surreptitious Evil?

Of course not - on the grounds that these bloggers have clearly set out their stall and any visitors know what they're getting into. There's no subterfuge there, no hypocrisy.

But what to do when more than one woman writes, warning about a certain blogger who uses his blog to suck in and abuse women? When this blogger is occupying the moral high ground, waxing lyrical about everyone loving each other and posting images to reinforce this but the message of "love" comes down to having sex with as many as you like, as long as there is a "bond" - a new world hotchpotch religion for the future?

What to do when this blogger, who is clearly charming a considerable number of women into going along with him, is also using images of Christ and says that the new Marxist Christian Free Love new world is merely an extension of Christianity itself? That Christ would approve?

What to do when the person uttering such balderdash is immensely popular with the men because of his rollicking bonhomie and with women for the message of love and tolerance he's preaching? And for the pathos in his beautifully written posts?

What to do when that blogger is a member of the same group I am and there's no way anyone would accept a Christian's word in the blogosphere over a "good guy", especially on the subject of gross misrepresentation of Christ's position?

Update Monday morning - I've removed the final two paragraphs of this post on the grounds that the other party cannot reply here. It's been suggested this is a spat between two bloggers. This clearly a misreading of my persona. Since when have I ever blogged for personal gain on any issue? This is an issue of protecting people which is all the "micro-control" posts have been and will be about. These are macro-issues.

Personal issues with fellow bloggers - show me anywhere I have posted on these on my site. For the general readership, this issue has now moved inside Blogpower and nothing further will appear on this blog about it.

[imagined community] it's easy if you try

Ian Appleby, founder member of Blogpower and esteemed man of letters is two years old this weekend. That's right - two years old and you can read all about it here.

He's the one in the orange shirt which Gabby's sister is so in love with. Happy birthday, young man!

Do get over there, people, if you haven't already done so and congratulate him.