Al-Megrahi Sleeps with the Fishes
20/05/12
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of the 1988 bombing over Lockerbie of American PanAm flight 103 which killed 270 people, is dead.
The decision to release al-Megrahi because he was not well and send him back to Libya was made by Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill. Yes, Kenny MacAskill, all on his own, with no help or influence from anyone decided to release the terminal bomber. It was an act of compassion, what more do we need to know.
Well, it really doesn't matter whether you do or do not believe that al-Megrahi did the deed or that MacAskill was pressured to release him - something to do with BP and Tony Blair doing a deal with Gaddafi. Fact is you'll never know the truth.
Al-Megrahi sleeps with the fishers and Sir Gus O'Donnell, Kenny MacAskill, Alex Sammond, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Dr Andrew Fraser (Scottish Prison Service medical chief), ex-BP chief executive Tony Hayward, Justice Secretary Jack Straw and the judges at Camp Ziest in the Netherlands, who originally jailed al-Megrahi, all sleep more soundly tonight.
Dog wins BGT
14/05/12
Proof perfect that the viewing public get the joke, as they vote overwhelmingly to crown a dog BGT champion. It is now rumoured that the dog is considering his future and may turn his attention to politics. You read it here first!
Stop the World I wanna get off!
10/05/12
Sunset-hued Orange, Red, Yellow sold for £53.9 million — at a Christie’s auction in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center. Enough said! No! Wait a minute, a bigger crime has just been committed...12/05/12
Look at it, Kapoors Tower, and they are charging £15 per adult and £7 per child entrance to compound the injury....
"Up close the steel tubes that have been bolted together to create Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond's homage to the architecture of dreams are not merely red, as they appear from a distance. They are deeply, organically, warmly and carnally red, a red of freshly exposed arteries and organs. As ever-changing sealskin clouds slide through the sky around it, the tower seems a living being, full of blood, equipped with mysterious organic innards. It even has an arse, or at least a rusted steel horn that hangs below and fulfils the role of a dome, not on top of the building, but below it."
Well that's the Guardian's view, here's another, it's a pile of junk, a waste of £22 million, (even if most of the money came from steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal) just one large mocking piss take.
Psychiatrist, R. D. Laing, once observed that the deluded man finds his delusions so obvious that he can't understand why the rest of the world doesn't want to share them.
Frequently, however, people do share the delusions of mad men, they believe things are as they are because it's obvious and then, they call it common sense - and then the mad man's delusions become the way we understand the world.
For instance, David Willetts MP tells us, "There's a very close link between black swan thinking and what we're doing on health or education.”
Guru Nassim Taleb, Tales of Black Swans
In his spare time, our great leader Dave 'nice but dim', can be found sat crosslegged at the feet of his guru Nassim.
In these rare moments, Nassim will tell Dave tales of Black Swans, themselves rare, almost as rare as a Windows operating system that works.
Nassim will probably be reading from his book 'The Black Swan' and Dave will be all ears like a rabbit, with big eyes like a panda on the look out for ideas, to use in his Big Society.
For Nassim, Big is bad. Dave makes a note to tell Willetts to find another word. Big, Nassim says, makes a mess of running things.
Random is also bad because randomness encourages people to think they can predict the future. Well, Nassim says they can't because they don't know enough.
Nassim says that best way to avoid Black Swan events is to stay under the duvet.
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