of birds, bees, bigots, hypocrisy and go-go dancing in vanilla-scented leather whilst shaving one's bits in a role-play spanking sort of activity in London and Madrid

Okay, I was reading about the British General Election on the The Independent this morning when came across an article titled Anti-gay Baptist minister took male prostitute on holiday (I know.)

Well, the title speaks for itself. However, what I wasn't expecting was for the piece to briefly have me in stitches. This next bit is what did it:

"Rekers also neglected to explain what had drawn him to Lucien, who has long blond hair and appears topless in photographs on the website. Perhaps it was the young man's interesting range of hobbies, which are listed as: "vanilla, leather, shaving, spanking, role-play and go-go dancing"."

The whole thing reeks of stupid surrealism if you ask me (but you should never ask me 'cos I may tell you what I think.)

Everybody knows any bigoted individual/group/institution on an earnest evangelical mission (opinion-wise, not necessarily religious) to condemn and try to squash perfectly acceptable ideas, lifestyles or just plain human rights, has a dark, hidden, messed-up agenda. So I won't even get into that (this is already getting far too serious for la ninja as it is, innit?)
I just really dig how the journalist phrased that paragraph "vanilla, leather, shaving, spanking, role-play and go-go dancing". Irony (obviously linked to wit, humour and intelligence) is often a powerful weapon against bigotry.

Right, back to less messed-up affairs, like... politics? Ahem.

Anyway... Hello, long time no ninja.

All is well here (should anyone be wondering/interested), just got my mind on other things these days but I can feel a full nonsense-ninja recovery coming up... Yay. Watch this space.