I wrote this about a year ago and it has been sitting quietly with some other drafts that got forgotten. Re-reading I found myself feeling that, whilst I don’t really think any differently at a structured level, I do seem to be finding the all-encompassing sadness of life a little easier to shoulder at the [...]
Archive for the ‘Speculation’ Category
It’s All In How You Disappear.
Posted in Classics, Fuck Knows, Speculation, World on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Moors, Artificial Hearts and Complimentary Spam
Posted in Science, Speculation on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Grammatically incorrect, misspelt, irrelevant to the content of the post, and usually advertising insurance for farmers but effusive with praise they nonetheless remain; thank chaos for spam filters but the real question remains who the hell has been looking me up over a hundred times a day? The weather here in Yorkshire is what you’d [...]
Logan’s Retirement Plan.
Posted in Meaningless Rambling, Speculation on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading through the BBC website in what has proven to be a very roundabout manner of translating Hippolytos and came across an article regarding the Pensions Bill, which would increase the retirement age for women from 60 to 65 and then increase the retirement age for both sexes to 66. Sarah Harper’s call [...]
A Day in the Life of the Profound
Posted in Freedom of Information, Political, Pop Culture, Speculation, UK politics on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
…then I spent half an hour trying to think of something witty and profound to put up a my Facebook status but couldn’t so I finally just tapped out a few lines from a song I know because there’s nothing like using another person’s song to demonstrate one’s own individuality. After that I went through [...]
TV reflections, our beauty? or someone else?
Posted in Culture, Discussion, Philosophy, Pop Culture, Society, Speculation on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Focusing entirely on keeping myself operational for the band practices I fail to keep my head from revolving in endless, repetitive circles. It is not as uncomfortable as it may sound, in fact maybe having a cold has actually opened up some link between my concious mind and my memory, usually locked behind cold steel [...]
There are lies, damned lies and then there are telephone polls
Posted in Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Political, Speculation, US Politics, War on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Of all statistics the telephone poll is one of the most often quoted as a statement of universal fact, and often the most likely to be wrong. The latest poll conducted by Zogby International (just the name man, just the name is enough) concluded that 53% of Americans believed that the US would be involved [...]
An interesting proposition
Posted in Anti-War, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Political, Speculation, Terrorism, UK politics, US Politics, Violence, War on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is something you probably won’t find being reported in the mainstream media (I could be wrong; most of the time I am) according to the FARS News Agency www.farsnews.ir; the Mashad, Fardowsi University in Northeast Iran, has extended an invitation to President Bush to perform a public lecture in a similar vein to that [...]
Opinion swings, partition plans and the usual bad news
Posted in democracy, Government, Political, Speculation, War on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Republican Senator for New Mexico Pete Domenici has withdrawn his support for President Bush’s War policy, following the example set over the past 10 days by a number of Republicans, namely Richard Lugar R-Ind, George Voinovich R-Ohio and possibly John Warner R-Va. Among his proposals are an almost complete troop withdrawal by March 2008, and [...]
Increasing transgressions and another step towards the loss of Canada
Posted in Canada, PNAC, Political, Speculation on June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I read this latest story from the AFP Network with a great deal of interest OTTAWA (AFP) – The government of Canada is quietly looking at changing its restrictive gun laws to allow foreign law enforcement officers to carry weapons in this country, according its official publication.The Canada Gazette said a proposed amendment to the [...]
