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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Tulipz on the Internetz
For reasons that need not detain us, I was googling around Billy Joel’s novelty song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and stumbled on this below, which is just too hilarious… From some guys called the Richter Scales.
Albania – tanks for the memories…
Hoxha had always been paranoid about foreign invasion (street signs were prohibited lest they prove useful to an invading army), and his paranoia only increased after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. He desperately needed some method of repelling … Continue reading
Slavery and genocide as “severe forms of market interference”
Chomsky being wry Very high protection was only one of the devices of state intervention in the economy. There are many others, which aren’t studied by economic historians, but they’re there. So consider cotton, which was the fuel of the … Continue reading
Capitalists opposed to privatisation?!
Well, this does not compute (if you’re a moron who hasn’t been paying attention to reality because your head’s buried in a text book/the sand). Shippers unhappy with privatisation Jenny Wiggins The shipping industry has expressed concern over the New … Continue reading
Posted in economics, politics
Tagged free market wing-nuts, privatisation, socialism for the rich, state subsidies
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Metabolic rift? No, it’s the talkingbollocks rift
This is one of those posts where I need to get my disclaimers in first. Buckle up. * I do NOT believe that the kind of thinking and doing that got us into this mess is going to get us … Continue reading
Posted in activism, climate, competence
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Imagine My Surprise…
My friend Marc Roberts put together a fantastic cartoon a few years ago. Here it is as a youtube, with L. Cohen accompanying (unless you’re in Germany, where the video is blocked…)
Posted in a little self-knowledge, apocalypse, climate, framing, humour, natural world, religion, science, technoscience
Tagged 500 year old man, discontinuities, Marc Roberts, paradigms
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Thanks for the memories
It’s an enduring sci-fi device – “a man wakes up with memories. But are they his own?” Philip (“Blade Runner”) K Dick did it lots, as did the people responsible for the recent film “Inception” etc. In other films and … Continue reading
Hilarious protest placard
Not words that you often see. Justified…
Posted in activism, humour, politics, religion
Tagged Jesus Christ, socialism, Tea Party
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Film Review: The Day After – no redemption narrative
Well. That was cheerful. I remember bits of this from when I saw it on release, over 25 years ago. The doctor (Jason Robards) slumping in his car, the panic in the supermarket, the woman looking in horror as the … Continue reading
Posted in apocalypse, film review
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