THE SHAMROCK AND THE THISTLE

Happy New Year

CHRISTMAS SONG

Christmas song from Aidan Moffat. Sheer class.

CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS

Been doing a lot of reading lately and a lot of re-reading too. One that was in the pile was The Fall of Kelvin Walker by Alasdair Gray. This little passage caught the eye… “Don’t you understand, Kelvin? Haven’t you got the point? All these chairmen and directors and governors and politicians, they’re all confidence [...]

THE STRETCHED TWIG OF PEACE IS AT MELTING POINT

A little video from The Day Today which shows quite neatly how the media have been handling the latest crisis in Korea…

SATURDAY MATINEE 13 – THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD

Full film available on youtube.First part below and if you want the other parts go to THIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL.  

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY & INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS DAY

Today is the day of International Human Rights and the day of International Animal Rights. You could be forgiven for thinking that is some kind of sick joke to even host such a thing when, as Mickey Z says, Every two seconds, a human being starves to death. Every 46 seconds, a woman is raped [...]

RADICAL THERAPIES by Philip Challinor

Philip Challinor blogs under the name The Curmudgeon. If you have visited that site you will know that a quick wit, combined with his great mix of sometimes arcane and sometimes garbled newpoliticmanagementspeak result in some sublime moments. Radical Therapies is one of his several advances into longer format writing and while it doesn’t really [...]

THAT NATURE V NURTURE THING

In the Nature V Nurture debate, something that it is surprising to think about as learned behaviour and not a natural reaction is whatever you shout when you feel pain. You might think it would be natural for everyone in the world to shout the same thing however this is patently not the case. In [...]

QUICK QUIZ – One

Just a quick quiz question. If there are no responses I will take it that either I stumped you or that there was a thundering lack of interest. Here we go then. Q. What do the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis didn’t end in mass slaughter and these photos of Uranus have in common? [...]