New York’s mayor, a man called Michael Bloomberg, is either incredibly stupid, absurdly deluded or determined to mislead the people he represents.
“Terrorists around the world feel threatened by the freedoms we have in this country and want to take our freedoms away from us. “
No. No, no, no. Terrorists may hate us, but [...]
Last Saturday I was riding my new bike along a sea-front cycle path (in Hove) when a careless pedestrian lurched suddenly into my way. We collided, she went flying, I came to a dead stop.
I was shocked and mildly wounded. She was okay, but similarly shocked. I was expecting a stream of embarrassed apologies, given [...]
Paul Moore is another hero – a man who perceived that the banks’ irresponsible lending would lead to disaster.
Unfortunately, when Paul Moore spoke up, and tried to warn his bosses of what he could see was inevitable, he was sacked.
What kind of government have we installed that allows such things to happen? What do regulatory [...]
Bernard Madoff is an American businessman who may have perpetrated the largest fraud in history. Madoff lured thousands of investors to trust their money in what they believed was a lucrative investment. Sadly Madoff’s company was nothing but a Ponzi scheme, where the only money returned to investors was other investor’s money. There was no [...]
Peter Schiff predicted the current economic turmoil. Clever chap!
As part of my series Celebrating Intelligence, I’m highlighting this article by David Miliband, the foreign secretary, admits that the term “war on terror” is:
“misleading and mistaken.”
Finally, after eight years of generating fresh conflict, of throwing fuel on flames, the British government seems to be waking up to the reality that a war on terror [...]
We’re all going to die!
Sorry… in the first of my series of nice ideas and general acts of intelligence, I present a series of stickers by the Existential Resistance Army. Intended to interrupt daily life with messages designed to create cognitive dissonance in the minds of the mindless, these stickers should help us all remember [...]
I was thinking… perhaps collecting examples of people being stupid isn’t such a good idea. Who wants to revel in stupidness? There’s a quote I like by Anthony Burgess, or perhaps he was quoting someone else when he said (something like):
“Rolling in the muck is not the best way to get clean.”
So rather than blogging [...]