Rants and Raves

Before I start this post proper, can I just say that I haven't forgotten about Billing, I just need to put it to one side for now. It must be me. I must be stupid. It certainly makes no sense to my tiny little brain. My good friend Nigel 'Gresh' Gresham lost four of his beautiful children in an accident last September. Note the word accident. Since then he has been through hell. Yet the CPS yesterday saw fit to advise the police to prosecute him for four counts of death by dangerous driving... Read Full Story

  In 1959, writer Richard Condon, penned a thriller about the son of a prominent political family who is brainwashed into becoming an unwilling assassin for the Communist Party. The Manchurian Candidate was subsequently made into two movies, in 1962 and 2004.   A review of the book by The New Yorker called the book among other things: ” Brilliant…Wild and exhilarating.   Now, The New Yorker is taking a lot of heat because of it’s latest cover—depicting Barack Obama as a Manchurian... Read Full Story

  Despite my ever increasing age—there are some things I just don’t get. I guess I’m just condemned to be confused for the rest of my life… Here’s a few examples:   SUN OF A GLITCH…. I always thought nothing could be a cleaner, more non-polluting form of energy that Solar Power.   But, that’s because I don’t work for the U.S. Government.   Despite the fact that we’ve been living with the sun since humans first appeared on this plant— our federal bureaucrats have slapped a TWO YEAR HOLD on... Read Full Story

  Last December, I wrote a post recalling the classic Warner Brothers animated cartoon series Pinky and the Brain that always featured the same catch-line.   The Genius mouse named Brain would always ask his dim-witted partner Pinky if he “was pondering what I’m pondering?” before launching off on another silly attempt to take over the world.   Today the thing that passes for my brain is filled with bits left to ponder—and I’m just wondering how many of you are pondering what I’m pondering... Read Full Story

I really must stop watching or reading the news, it just raises my blood pressure. I really think that we have reached the "lunatics have taken over the asylum" point that Fun Boy Three sang about in the 80's. I could of course be referring to many different aspects of modern society but let us focus for a moment on terrorism, or rather our pathetic reaction to it. Of course terrorism in any form is an appalling thing and we should resist those that attempt to manipulate by way of violence... Read Full Story