News reaches us that Ecstasy isn’t as bad as the authorities have led to us believe.
Politicians always seem to be on the prohibitionist side and have been telling us that drugs are bad.
Continue reading →News reaches us that Ecstasy isn’t as bad as the authorities have led to us believe.
Politicians always seem to be on the prohibitionist side and have been telling us that drugs are bad.
Continue reading →Caedmon’s Cat in ‘Why do you Blog?’
I blog during the course of my mouse-catching activities. I do so because I’m the only moggy in the area who’s interested enough to do it. Life is getting
Continue reading →Things Real People Don’t Say About Advertising. Bruce Schneier on bomb sniffing mice. John Adams on the need for a Cream Buns Act.
Continue reading →The do gooders who think they know best usually end up getting the reverse result that they are aiming for. This is because they go purely on instinct and emotion and not actually looking at the issue and
Continue reading →Proofreading is a dying art, wouldn’t you say? I should say that I am no expert at grammer or spelling and use the tools available to ensure I don’t make too many mistakes but it’s easy to miss the
Continue reading →Let’s put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home. Solves two problems in one.
Pensioners
This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks.
They’d receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they’d
Continue reading →As I’m left holding the reins of AR I got to thinking about how I got into blogging.
I work in the computer industry so blogging, tweeting, facesitting, weren’t unusual terms
Continue reading →The Department of Communities and Local Govt have recently published these forgotten documents commissioned by the previous government but for some reason not released until now. It should be noted that the cost of
Continue reading →So its now a crime to leave a child unattended for 30 minutes. It seems that is the case now that some police authority has cautioned
Continue reading →I notice from my perusing of various left wing blogs that Liberal Conspiracy is making a big thing out of the fact that Vodafone shut down it’s mobile phone operation in Egypt
Continue reading →Party! There’s going to be a party on the street. Well so long as the council allow it.
Andrew Withers has previously mentioned the Royal Wedding where
Continue reading →A new eco friendly milk bottle has been invented (or is it recycled because the inventor first thought of it in 2007). A papier-mâché version. If you’re wondering how it doesn’t disintegrate then be
Continue reading →Most of the main stream media are bleating about some animal cruelty being carried out during the making of a film. The film is about the end of the Zeppelin and includes
Continue reading →James Brokenshire (not just his name but his ideas are broken) as the minister in charge of crime prevention has just thought of a new wheeze and a method by which he can raise his image
Continue reading →From America comes news of an internal (or is it infernal) terrorist called Kevin Theodore Simon who managed to bring down a plane.
Security around planes is extremely high because
Continue reading →Redditch council is planning on using the waste heat from a crematorium to warm up a swimming pool. Their plan is to save money, nearly £15K/yr by diverting the heat that would normally go
Continue reading →We are always told to drink lots of water. We are bombarded with these messages from TV/Radio health programmes, government health propaganda, and advertising from drinks companies.
All this on the basis that our bodies
Continue reading →A relative of mine recently changed their number plate at the same time as exchanging cars. Due to problems along the way they had two cars with identical number plates. Garages are not that efficient and the DVLA
Continue reading →Why are we so picky about eating animals. Many vegetarians are veggy by choice not because eating meat causes them problems but because they are picky about the
Continue reading →In Tuscon, Arizona there has been the shooting rampage where 6 people were killed by Jared Lee Loughner and Democrat congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and more than a dozen others badly wounded. As the families in Tucson
Continue reading →The ideal politician is one who does nothing.
A politician who jumps up at any opportunity and makes a name for himself by grandstanding and coming up with new laws and opinions every other
Continue reading →No, I’m not selling used Brussels Sprouts, I’m talking about second hand, third hand, and fourth hand second cigarette smoke.
It’s not just the UK which has banned smoking in enclosed spaces. Ireland started it.
Continue reading →Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner, says that taking pictures of children at nativity plays is not against the Data Protection Act. Thank god someone has seen some common sense. However the DPA is not the reason
Continue reading →The MOT test is to be changed in the new year. The government has also announced that it will review the MOT test. They will look into the initial exemption period, the testing frequency, and what
Continue reading →NASA has just announced that they have found some alien life forms. But before you get too excited about little green men, this is actually about little green bacteria. Well maybe not green as they are
Continue reading →Proof that child safety is more about protecting children from the perceived extreme risk of pedophiles and similar abuse than about protecting them from accidents is shown by this quote from the CoE policy document on
Continue reading →“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
All around you people are striving to avoid failure. In all
Continue reading →So the goverment wants to find out how happy the country is via statistics. Dry statistics will never show the state of happiness of the country. It it is too ephemeral.
Happiness is
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