Big brother may be watching
But in this case it is a mythical pizza house. (Includes sound as well)
Anyway, watch this futuristic scene courtesy of the American Civil Liberties Union.
By Paul Handover
Tag: Politics
The sub-prime crisis
British humour
One aspect of British culture is their dry sense of humour. In terms of satire, for over a decade three people have held pole positions: Rory Bremner, John Bird and John Fortune. WikiPedia has a very good summary.
Bird and Fortune have also recorded a series of ‘interviews’ focusing on some of the idiocies of life.
Here’s a classic about the sub-prime crisis. Slightly dated but no less funny for that.
More from these incredibly, clever guys from time to time.
By Paul Handover
California – not so free anymore!
It now costs more to insure California’s debt than Russia’s
There’s a rather technical piece published recently on Bloomberg.com about the cost of insuring debt in a number of countries.
Eleven years after Russia defaulted, investors want less to insure its debt than California’s. “This would have been impossible to imagine a year ago,” said Dimitry Sentchoukov, an emerging-market credit strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort in London.
Will the last person leaving the sunshine State, please close the door!
By Paul Handover
Can’t see the wood for the trees.
Debt, Inflation, Recession, Depression? Finding some truth!
How blessed we are with almost instant access, via the Web, to mind-numbing amounts of information. So, for example, it was easy to check the origins of the quote that forms the subject line.
Yes, the saying is at least five hundred years old, and probably a century or two could be added to that, for it must have been long been in use to have been recorded in 1546 in John Heywood’s ‘A dialogue Conteynyng the Nomber in Effect of all the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue.’ He wrote ‘Plentie is no deinte, ye see not your owne ease. I see, ye can not see the wood for trees.’
Anyway, to the substance of this Post.
Is it me?
It’s very fashionable to attack politicians for showing a lack of integrity. Or is it the whole political apparatus? But slowly over the years, as more and more water flows under the bridge, it’s becoming more difficult to come to any other conclusion than that politics is corrupt, dysfunctional (in terms of societal needs) and motivated by the need to gain and maintain power.
Is there any evidence to the contrary? It would be great to see it.
It all seems a very long way from:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
By Paul Handover
Learning from Dogs 