And God WEPT at the ineptitude of it...

For. Fuck. Sake. REALLY?

Lord. This I like though:

It's funny coz it's true fax! (from here)

UPDATE:

This is more like it:

"The critical arguments in which [Zadie] Smith engages are as vital and as potentially violent as sexual wrestling matches, and in an essay on Katharine Hepburn she recalls that she ejected two lovers from her bed – on separate occasions, I should explain – because they disagreed with her about the relationship between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Adam's Rib." (link)

I know a guy, old friend, good friend, who having picked up a young strumpet in a luminous Cardiff nightclub by the peacock effect of flashing his 'guns' on the floor, got her back to his room then threw her out before the act of ugly-bumping itself because, to quote said boyo: "she didn't know enough about North Korea".

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It has been a pondering of some delight amongst his comrades these years since as to how this lacuna within her knowledge was discovered. Then, this is the same man who dumped a girlfriend because she didn't know who Van Morrison was.

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Standards are, I guess, important. A lesson to us all.

Déjà vu from Slavoj Žižek here.

"But you have to be pretty hard-boiled to do what they [hacks] routinely do to people who (mostly) can't answer back. ... when the howling pack turns against a public figure, there is little he or she can do."

- MW

Another great day for political news. Glad to see some ideology being bandied about - the big stuff tackled, etc.

Hmm. That article does remind me though, must pen a letter (apologies for messy typing):

Dear lumpenfilth (of all socio-economic levels),

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Re: Being Intellectual Lazy

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Have you repeated the following 'facts', most likely as a way of making what you think is a point?

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1. Nick Clegg said he slept with over 30 women

2. Gordon Brown ignored a question on biscuits on mumsnet.

3. Gordon Brown said he listened to the Arctic Monkies.

4. Tony Blair claimed to have seen Jackie Milburn play.

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If so, then you're a fucking idiot who hasn't done the most basic background research but repeated utter shite, probably in an attempt to make yourself feel cleverer than those dirty politician scum (and with these examples such pathetic, snarky 'jabs' are not necessary, go for something both fo consequence and real). Just feel that silly little point should be made. Now get off your arse and actually do something. Enjoy your tea first, obviously.

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fraternal greetings,

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Dai

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p.s. please stop making false analogies as to how much harder your job is compared to that of the Prime Minister.

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p.p.s. Keith Vaz should, however, be banned from ever talking about evil violent video games and/or films. The massive douche.

"When people protested Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the large majority of them did not ask for capitalism. They wanted the freedom to live their lives outside state control, to come together and talk as they pleased; they wanted a life of simplicity and sincerity, liberated from the primitive ideological indoctrination and the prevailing cynical hypocrisy.

As many commentators observed, the ideals that led the protesters were to a large extent taken from the ruling Socialist ideology itself — people aspired to something that can most appropriately be designated as “Socialism with a human face.” Perhaps this attitude deserves a second chance."

- Slavoj Žižek

‘I believe one cannot be a friend of truth without living on the edge. But to do so one has to be gripped by the idea and the passion that life and thought are one. ... this internal dialogue with oneself – listening to one’s inner voice, as Ghandhi used to say – but also a ceaseless and restless activity of questioning on the nature of the evil that one has to confront in political life...'

- Postel, D., (2006), Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran (Hat-tip to Žižek)

[I should really be working.]

"If the time ever does come when we look back on our intervention in Afghanistan as a humiliating debacle, this past weekend may well be identified as one of the moments when the calamity became irreversible. "

- Christopher Hitchens

"Lenin once defined a revolutionary situation as one that occurred when the rulers could not go on in the traditional way and the ruled did not wish to continue in that old way. Engels was more metaphorical, saying that revolution was the midwife that delivered a new life out of an older body. Both images come to mind in remembering the revolutions of 1989, which humbled a ruling system that believed itself to be based on the historical wisdom of Lenin and, indeed, of Engels.

In fact, the Communist leaderships of Eastern Europe had almost wholly ceased to believe in anything but their own survival and self-interest, which is one of the reasons their demise was so swift..."

- Good Hodgkins

"As I marched across Parliament Square, semiconsciously falling into step with the military pace of the right-wing half of this right-left collaboration, Clark said to me: “I suppose you have heard people say that I am a bit of a fascist?” We had a whole lunch ahead of us and I didn’t want to get off on the wrong foot, but something told me he would despise me if I pretended otherwise, so I agreed that this was indeed a thumbnail summary in common use. “That’s all balls,” he replied with complete equanimity. “I’m really much more of a Nazi.” This was what Bertie Wooster would have called “a bit of a facer”; I was groping for an apt response when Clark pressed on. “Your fascist is a little middle-class creep who worries about his dividends and rents. The true National Socialist feels that the ruling class has a debt and a tie to the working class. We sent the British workers off to die en masse in the trenches along the Somme, and then we rewarded them with a slump and mass unemployment, and then that led to another war that gutted them again.” For Clark, the lesson of this bloodletting was that a truly national, racial, and patriotic class collaboration was the main thing."

- Himself

ALSO! (top-hat and cane to Will)