THE TIME FOR ENGLISH CORRECTION, IT NOW BE

This one, a long time have I watched. The errors in speech be many. “You’re working hard to put food on your family.” —Presidential candidate George W. Bush, Nashua, N.H., Jan. 27, 2000 Here the problem of the president be that confused he is. Trying he is, to say ‘put food on the table’ or [...]

GONE SHOPPING

This is an article Mark Steel wrote in the Independent in January but the point stands… NOT A SHOPPING SPREE – Mark Steel Occasionally there’s a news story that can be presented as so jolly everyone must find it heartening – Havant and Waterlooville scoring against Liverpool, kittens rescued from chimneys, that Indonesian dictator bastard [...]

UNOCCUPIED BRITAIN

I always loved the premise of this sketch almost more than any other Monty Python thing. The sketch in question starts 30 seconds into the video…

FOR ANYONE WHO EVER MISSED HOME

At various times I have spent months in a stretch or even a year away from home. Travelling is a wonderful thing – seeing how people do things in various places is endlessly interesting, but sometimes you feel it burn. In the course of a year it won’t happen that often but it can be [...]

SPORTSMEN – GUTLESS, GREEDY OR STUPID

This is a repost but I think it is topical… A few days ago I posted about actors who uncritically appear in blatant propaganda pieces but don’t say anything. Another group that are involved in this sort of thing are sportsmen. I remember Michael Jordan getting asked about sweatshops in Indonesia where people were making [...]

ANTHROPOMORPHISATION

I know that this is not exactly the most important story in the world today but there is a serious point to it. I saw this story… Shock at polar bear’s carp kill Germany’s celebrity polar bear Knut has triggered a new controversy by fishing out 10 live carp from his moat and killing them [...]

VOMIT PART 2

As I said in VOMIT (Part 1), and old photo and a borrowed line but some things make you think that there isn’t enough vomit in the world… I actually have an old video of U2 on stage when he use to phone the whitehouse at the end of every gig and it was when [...]

ABOUT A YEAR ON

About a year on from when I mentioned this report, another one has came out with roughly the same conclusions. The reports are saying that contrary to the climate sceptics claims there is no way that cosmic rays from the sun are the main cause of the climate changes we are now seeing. Further… Presenting [...]

DOUBLE STANDARDS

I often hear people talking about the what the political classes get up to as deceitful or hypocritical, shameful or disgusting. Less used are ‘murderous’, ‘destructive’ and ‘catastrophic’ but they are just as true. The authors of this report today are talking about home-owners being unwilling to move toward zero carbon homes because the government [...]

A LONG WAY TO GO

For those of you have read ‘Last Chance to See’ by Douglas Adams and even for those of you haven’t (to whom I recommend it), there was a little news out recently about the Kakapo, in New Zealand. If you want to know what the hell I am talking about try this excellent and truly [...]