No, the title isn’t something out of the Babylon Bee… but it should be. Continue reading Royal Navy Warship ‘Scandalously’ Doesn’t Have Enough Ammunition to Take Out Militant Goat-Herders
This oft-heard phrase owes its popularity to William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in which the titular character says, “For ’tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petar[d].” (A petard is a medieval explosive. The quote implies that the engineer—the person who sets the explosive device—is blown into the air [hoisted] by the explosion of his own device.)
The Hindustan Times of India carried the news, as also has Singapore’s The Straights Times, and not to be left out, The Australian is also reporting of this.
The American media? Not so much. Continue reading American Media Yawns: Japan Deploys Troops, Missiles to Defend Taiwan