Posted in belief, cars, cliques, correspondence, cycles, enmity, friends, individual, intuition, lies, mind, morality, opinion, person, psychology, research, safety, society, transport, truth, understanding on August 11th, 2010 2 Comments »
To the editor of Cycle, the CTC magazine:
Sir,
It’s always a shame to see factions of CTC cyclists still arguing with each other over whether one “ought” to either wear, or be forced to wear, a helmet. The argument last in a recent couple of letters pages rears its head so often that the editor might [...]
Posted in belief, body, class_warfare, cliques, diary, election, enmity, entertainment, establishment, experience, fatigue, housing, lies, opinion, people, person, philosophy, politics, pragmatism, responsibility, society, understanding on May 10th, 2010 2 Comments »
The dust has yet to settle; yet any election blogpost is already out of date. Other more savvy political commentators than me (and probably ones with more time on their hands) like Obsolete and Anton Vowl have already digested much of the results and have largely pre-empted much of the points I might make.
When I [...]
Posted in charity, cliques, enmity, environment, friends, garden, here, lies, location, loyalty, near, society, understanding on April 30th, 2010 2 Comments »
Our garden share has fallen through, unfortunately. The circumstances are quite complicated to relate, but a précis would go something like this. Our sharer—the elderly woman with a garden—turned out to be simultaneously unwilling to keep in touch and also very demanding, a headily passive-aggressive mix. Last time we spoke a few weeks ago everyting [...]
Posted in blogs, climate, commenting, dickheads, environment, journalism, lies, location, media, nu-media, opinion, publishing, rants, research, truth, understanding on January 31st, 2009 10 Comments »
Bad journalism should not be mistaken for bad research. For example, via Brennig comes an instance of the BBC casually and cavalierly cutting and pasting from the inaugural speech. This is pretty low, but hardly a surprise. It’s certainly no lower than the levels to which the BBC, the Mail, the Sun or the rest [...]
I’ve been accused recently of harbouring a religious zeal about climate change: in fact, it’s been suggested by my attendance at a lecture given by Monbiot in the Sheldonian back in late 2006 formed the basis of a conversion narrative. This is a personal story arc whereby some particular event, involving hearing a speech given [...]
Posted in amerika, belief, cliques, election, lies, people, politics, race, responsibility, society, understanding on November 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
monkeyhands wonders whether first-time voters couldn’t have made it to the booths a bit sooner:
Waiting for the perfect presidential candidate before you deign to cast a vote is like waiting for your parents to stop being homophobic before you tell them you’re gay. It’s giving yourself an excuse not to act, an excuse not to [...]
Posted in aeroplanes, climate, cliques, commerce, consumption, crime, environment, far_right, industry, lies, location, people, politics, pragmatism, responsibility, right, scams, society, transport, understanding on October 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
… otherwise I can’t understand why he would want their finances, their homes and their very way of live ruined by runaway climate change in the near future.
I’ve met a few people who, despite being reasonably aware of (and fairly comfortable with) the notion of social responsibility and responsibility towards others, still voted for Boris [...]
Posted in amerika, art, blogs, cliques, election, enmity, far_right, humour, journalism, lies, media, nu-media, politics, research, society, truth, understanding, wisdom_of_groups on October 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
Via Rachel North, I present the return of the most annoying people ever to grace drinks advertising, the Wassup crowd. Don’t click away: it’s worth watching as far as one of them trying to hang himself:
I envisage a followup video based on the Bud-Weis-Er frogs, with a take-your-pick permutation of high-up Republicans taking [...]
Posted in art, cliques, enmity, establishment, far_right, humour, lies, love, loyalty, morality, patriarchy, person, politics, society, understanding, venues on October 11th, 2008 No Comments »
In typically offensive fashion, b3ta provided its newsletter subscribers with a racist song this week. It’s kind of funny if horrid and amateurish, which is a good strapline for the b3ta site generally. I drop “funny” into there in the hope that nobody will tell me to lighten up when they read what follows.
I wondered [...]
Posted in art, belief, blogs, cliques, criticism, far_right, humour, journalism, lies, media, nu-media, politics, race, society, understanding on August 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
Anton Vowl discusses cryptoracists, and the preferred mode of transport of the people who oppress their common-sense opinions:
Which brings me to the other kind of racist, who is much more loathsome. This kind of racist doesn’t admit he’s racist. He thinks he’s not racist; he thinks he’s just trying to talk about matters in a [...]
