When you find yourself looking up Crosby Stills Nash (and Young) lyrics on the web because you cannot believe they can be as bad as they sounded on the radio - then you know your hippy days are long behind you.

So, open letter to C S N (and Y) - your lyrics are homespun folksy hogwash.

This is actually a song lyric of nostalgia after the huge cuts to the British railway network in 1963. And it is probably Copyright, so sorry ( Read more... )

In a comeback that is so surprising that it is hard to think of suitable similes, Peter Mandelson has been recalled to Gordon Brown's government. This will be the third time the slimy lying toad (the opinions in this blog do not necessarily represent those of its author!) has tried to hold down a job like this. I give him 6 months before he is out ( Read more... )

Is was going to post about the arrogance of big studio American films but ( Read more... )

And straight I will repair
To the Curragh of Kildare
For it's there I'll finds tidings of my dear
I have known this song for many years and occasionally wondered why the girl was going to Ireland's main racecourse to find tidings of her dear. Now, thanks to the joys of the intraweb, I know the Curragh was also Ireland's main Army camp.

Somehow I ( Read more... )

It might not be as thrilling or important as the US Presidential election, but sometime in the next couple of years we will have an election too. The main choice is between Gordon - been there, done it, caused all the problems - Brown for Labour, and David - I'm new, I'm keen, I'm Mrs Thatcher in a suit - Cameron for the Conservatives ( Read more... )

I was so pleased the American Congress managed to steer that great country away from 'the slippery slope to socialism' yesterday. It seems so much more appropriate that it will carry on blundering down the long straight road to financial collapse, with the rest of the world following on its coat tails ( Read more... )

I love newspaper headlines, especially local newspapers, because it is so easy to wilfully misunderstand them ( Read more... )

While commenting about the problems of the way science is reported I remembered this factoid ( Read more... )

Totally without warning or precedent the environs of my house were subjected to 'sun' yesterday. My English readers will realise that this is the first time for what seems like decades that 'sun' has occurred, and frankly I will be surprised if it happens again ( Read more... )