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Youtube: What Nabil said… #woolwich
Very nicely done… Heaps of good points. I particularly liked (from 6.50) his comments to the media on their double-standards when reporting violence: “Why is it you always have to wait until it’s a Muslim who does something before you … Continue reading
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Not every dissident is a Galileo
Sometimes people fail not because their ideas are too good, but because they are clearly – to coin a phrase – swivel-eyed loons. BUT the sorts of hierachical organisations that run things in the West, (and manage tolerably well between … Continue reading
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I’d vote for this guy. #bulworth, much?
So, lots of posts brewing, on the nature of hierarchy, bureaucracy etc etc. In the meantime, via Jon Harris (who will always have a place in my heart for describing U2′s “Vertigo” as ‘pompous rock esperanto’), I came to Velvet … Continue reading
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Tagged Jon Harris, Velvet Coalmine
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How on earth does ANYTHING get done?
No wonder your average entrepreneur so loathes meetings. What was it Dave Berry said – organisations have meetings because they can’t actually masturbate? Either they are poorly conceived (death by powerpoint, serial-sage-on-the-stage) or else they are adequately conceived and then … Continue reading
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Tagged ego-fodder, facilitation, facipulation, meetings
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That word responsibility
The word “responsibility” really does work very hard, doesn’t it? “People should take responsibility for their actions” is the unobjectionable phrase. But often, in the hands of even decent, well-intentioned people this seems to come to mean “benefits should be … Continue reading
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You, me, everybody needs a part-time… job
Woooooohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! OMFG, wooohooooooooooooooooooo Did I exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? Yeah, for a while. I am ch-ch-changing back…the mind*-forg’d manacles are falling way. Free(r), free(r) at last. Hallelujuah. * And mortgage-forg’d … Continue reading
Petitions and the smugosphere – bwahahahaha
From here. Hat-tip to Sam
Economics textbooks should come with a warning sticker…
And before any economist talks on the radio or television, they should be asked what percentage of their predictions – about inflation, jobs, etc etc – have come to pass in the last year. There are monkeys with dart boards … Continue reading
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Worth thinking about…
“There’s an old saying in the public opinion business: we can’t tell people what to think, but we can tell them what to think about.” – Doug Henwood Reminds me of that Thomas Pynchon line, to the effect “if they … Continue reading
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Despair as the “suicide of the imagination”
Hat-tip to Sam (not Smith) To view our times as decadent and dangerous, to mistrust the government, to imagine that those in power as not concerned with our best interests is not paranoid but perceptive; to be depressed, angry or … Continue reading
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