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: October 2011

Rejoice Rejoice!

We can all stop tightening our belts. All those service cutbacks have yielded great returns. Are you all ready for the big party? It can’t be much longer now before the treacle starts trickling down… Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM  said Thursday its third-quarter profit rose 41% to $10.33 billion

Rafflesia The Gentleman Thug – A Short Review of David Attenborough’s Life On Air

I have just finished reading David Attenborough’s Life on Air. It is not the kind of thing I normally read because I don’t like reading green room stories or memoirs about a life in TV. In fact, I don’t much like TV so as I said, it was an unusual choice for me but I [...]

Cameron Prefers The Spread-Regal

Taking a break from telling the proles to stuff it, it appears that the greenest prime sinister ever is also going to tell the environment and wildlife to get f*cked too. The BBC says… Prime Minister David Cameron will not be going to the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil next year despite his pledge to lead [...]

All New Singinger & Dancinger

I have moved the vids I made over to vimeo and put some other things besides up there up too. There will be more going on there in the next few days too. I’m sure you will find something you will like. For the moment, here is a pretty harsh one I made on the [...]

I Was Always Quite Clear On It Too

A cartoon sent to me by my friend which was done by this guy…

Nature Photo – 2

For a while now I have been occasionally putting up various photos of around Scotlandon Sundays. Now I am mixing it up with some not bad nature photos I have taken around the place. They are quite anatomical and if you download it and zoom in you can see some quite good detail. This duck [...]

God (knows) Made Me Write This Post

On the way to the supermarket this morning I was listening to a podcast in which they were talking about Michelangelo’s David and when someone took a hammer to it. The story goes that the guy who did it said that god told him to do it. We are all familiar with loons doing lunatic [...]

Always Worth The Reprint

Just in case you needed a quick reminder… First picture from the Guardian  2nd from bloomberg and 3rd from time

Folly Upon Folly (Update)

As a little update to the post below it now appears that… On Wednesday, Mr Lutz (the policeman in control of the operation) said police believe they have now accounted for all 56 animals except one monkey. The animals’ owner, Terry Thompson, was found dead at the zoo, and police believe he killed himself. Mr [...]

Folly Upon Folly

If you want to get me angry then here is an easy way to do it. Watch an animal documentary and then describe one of the animals in it as “evil”.   They aren’t evil, by calling them that people are ascribing human characteristics to animals, which is called anthropomorphisation.   People do this all [...]

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