Strangely Perfect

Let’s make one thing clear; I like this tune. I bought it after one ‘part’ hearing from memory when it was released. As it turned out, it’s the only track on the ‘influential’ LP ‘Angel Dust’ that I actually did like… It popped in my head today so I’ve fished out this video from YouTube. [...]

I’ve been thinking about the perilous mentality of the 52% of Americans who think torture is all fine and dandy.  And then I saw a neat little video piece on the BBC this morning which casts a few French people in the exact same spots in June 1944 and now.  It’s here: D-Day in France: [...]

This morning’s news from “The Independent” will of course shake gasps of angst from those affected and that don’t know, but for the folks at the sharp chalky end, the Teachers, and for the Children pushing through life, this will come as no surprise. Schools hire bouncers for classroom ‘crowd control’ Teaching union in warning [...]

Data, and Trust in Science The Burden of Proof is on Science but ’twas ever thus…. The arguments from climate change sceptics ultimately hinge around the general perception of aloofness and intangibility that hang round science and scientists.  The trouble is that some people are basically innumerate and no amount of trying will make them [...]

As well as being true to his words about Guantanamo; we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations – [...]

Truly this car is the pits. -and here’s how.. The engineers seem to have responded with the most short-term planning possible to a demand from the BMW marketing department to make the company look green now that sales of their monster cars are down 40%.  Some “ad” bloke has said “clean electricity, that’s the way [...]

It’s important that in these times of tit-for-tat diplomacy which have replaced common sense and dialogue, that the correct order of statements and actions is recorded. Otherwise, in a short time, a different history will be seen as people’s views and memories get clouded in the mists of time.  Eventually, a whole new history appears [...]

I had a message from Doomage recently which allowed me to update some biographical information on the Crawling Chaos website here, http://crawlingchaos.co.uk/myths/people, but also he expressed his disappointment about the online sound quality. Needles to say, I agree with the sentiment but am forced into this mode by the technical limitations of the medium. But at [...]

Following on from my earlier posting mentioning General Motors cutbacks in SUV production due to rising fuel prices, Ford has now done the same. And about time, too! The car companies will still make pots of money by making smaller, more efficient cars.  They will actually be cheaper to make when looking at the raw [...]

Further to my previous post about my dissatisfaction with the Labour Party’s legal tilt that leaves the easy way open for a totalitarian state, another body of people have decided to withdraw funding. See this BBC post, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7443528.stm. It’s only 600,000 people affecting 108 Labour MPs directly and maybe the rest of the party in [...]

Excellent study this evening given by Howard and Alex. There was a lot from Nichiren, The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life , which was good as they were saying exactly the same stuff as I did when I spent a day getting my Buddhism Page out and to make sense to me. Plus [...]