To strive, to seek, to find…

Oh yes. Enjoy.

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It’s brilliant. The blog takes some rants and raves, voted for by Craigslist readers, and lays them out for your delectation. Some people out there are weird: scary-weird and funny-weird, all good to read.

You will find such gems as this: Facebook: I Love to Hate You

This is an update on the banker/25-year-old girl story. Earlier stuff here.

Apparently, though, Craigslist is the future, and a severe threat to newspapers. This blog shows us all why and how! Only not so much.

More highlights after the jump…

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If I do say so myself.

Sicko was shown at the London Film Festival last week. It is Michael Moore’s latest effort, looking at the mess that is America’s privatised healthcare system, relying as it does upon insurance claims to pay medical bills.

As Moore’s average, middle-class, insured subjects show us, though, having the insurance may still not be enough. The industry does all it can to avoid payouts, denying the needy of healthcare.

Netribution’s London correspondent Suchandrika Chakrabarti provides an extensive, absorbing review of the latest film from the documentary world’s most popular (creatively) and challenged (critically) director.

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8 William Shakespeare: You don’t need me to tell you that he’s a bit good. Go and find your own favourite. There’s plenty of material out there.

I like:

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not” - Hamlet

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me” - Richard II

“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance” - The Winter’s Tale

Someone big in the footie world next…

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4 Jeremy Clarkson: “We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. I want to drive around in a Terminator, not the heroine in an EM Forster novel.” Oh jesus. This man is not witty. He is one of the reasons why we shouldn’t complain if something is apparentely “political correctness gone mad,” because he is the somewhat dull alternative.

Well, let’s give him a chance (these quotations were brought to you by Channel Dave, the home of witty banter):

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A survey by British digital channel UKTV, on the occasion of the launch of Channel Dave, has found that 3000 “comedy fans” reckon that Oscar Wilde was a bit funny. In fact, he got 20% of the vote - yes, 600 peeps think he’s très amusant!

Which other totally surprising figures of great personal wit made the Top 10?

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