Just what tickled my fancy on May 19th

• Your revolting euphemism for today is… - 'Detention estate'
• Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies - Time to start saving for that submarine with the full complement of torpedoes…
• The Press Association: Study backs Armed Forces' Day - We can't feed you, we can't equip you properly, and your housing is shit, but here's your bank holiday. Feeling better?
• I will fight the bullies and stop late abortion - And to think we used to sneer at America for this kind of stuff. Or did Craig Brown write it?
• BBC NEWS: Taxpayer pain too much - Cameron - I see the BBC are using 'burden of taxation' without the quotation marks.
• Cath Elliot: What if it was your child? - 'If the UK media wouldn't show similar images of victims in this country, they shouldn't show them of victims anywhere else.'
• The Sharpener - …is back
• HangBitch: Emily Thornberry and 24 weeks - 'Some of us find it depressing that the Labour party is now such an ideological shambles that the pro-life drivel being peddled by the likes of Nadine Dorries can compete as a political option.'
• Gordon Brown accepts compromise over fathers to save key parts of embryo Bill - Ah, hand's up who's enjoying our enlightened times?
• Kira Cochrane on Nadine Dorries - 'extremely bleak'
• Cherie Blair Sells Film Rights to ?Speaking For Myself? - Beau Bo D?Or must die…
• Your groove for today is… - My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mamma
• Matthew Norman's Media Diary -