Michael Greenwell

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. – Aldous Huxley

Monthly Archives: March 2008

OH NO!

I never really read the onion that much but I have to say that this old one did make me laugh. I wonder how many people would panic if they printed it in a unintentionally satirical newspaper like the NYT or something.. Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness NEW YORK—Millions of [...]

IF ENGLAND WANTS HIM THEY CAN HAVE HIM

I don’t suspect they do want him but there you go. Who am I talking about? Gordon Brown of course. He is coming to make a speech today about how supporting Scottish Independence is unpatriotic to Scotland. He believes remaining part of the Union is the only way the Scots can join in bullying the [...]

WE WANT OUR THUMBS

It is a scary thought that in some places in the world right now there are people yelling ‘REVOLUTION, REVOLUTION’ and in other places yelling EVOLUTION, EVOLUTION – Bill Hicks. I have this nightmare vision that in twenty years time or so, if the creationists  manage to get their nonsense taught in schools as fact [...]

HOW TO NOTICE HALF AN ELEPHANT

Andy Rowell over at spinwatch has done a good blog on something I have mentioned once or twice before… I mentioned it here, here and here . Oh and here and I made this picture about it too. It is about how some people are starting to wake-up to the crisis we face but it [...]

SO?

Cheney tells America to go f*ck itself…

WRONG

Sometimes it is helpful to get a reminder of what ‘wrong’ actually means… dictionary.com describes it as – 1.not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed. from the bbc Bush to hail Iraq war ‘success’ Mr Bush’s Iraq policy has proved deeply unpopular at home US President George W Bush [...]

ARTHUR C CLARKE

“I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.”Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C Clarke has died. Some more quotes… “It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.“ “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.” “CNN is [...]

MELTDOWN

Literally billions of people are going to have their water supply adversely affected. Again, this story is on most major news sites but deemed less important than Paul McCartneys divorce or an elephant rodeo or similar bollocks depending what site you look at… A press release from the United Nations Environment Program# Meltdown in the [...]

BACKLASH BLUES

I do like this so what the hell…

U PO KYIN TO LECTURE AT YALE

Tony bLIAR is to lead some classes at Yale University on Faith™ and globalisation($). Now aside from the further proof that the man has no shame whatsoever, this put me in mind U Po Kyin, a character from the Orwell novel Burmese Days. U Po Kyin was a corrupt and scheming magistrate in the days [...]

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