The World Of TV Commercials: It’s Life, But Not As We Know It
October 31, 2009
R.F.Wilson writes: Would you like to live in a world of TV commercials? You know, the one where women are easily pleased and are drawn to men who dye their hair, use a certain type of deodorant, after shave or hair gel? Or where men are smitten by women who use a specific shampoo or perfume or a brand of tampons that don’t restrict their movement and make them feel so free and energetic?It is a world of easily pleased people, who tend to praise each other for not having dandruff or ask persistently what sort of washing up liquid others use and why. These people get together around a table for a family lunch or dinner and rejoice when mother surprises them with a ready-made meal that took only a couple of minutes to prepare in the microwave. There they go, chewing and smiling broadly at...
President Obama Should Stick To Reading From The Script. For The Time Being At Least
October 31, 2009
Adam Lovejoy writes: I do not know about you, but I often wonder: does President Barack Obama realise what he has gotten himself into? It was all very nice giving promises during the Democratic primaries and not really expecting anything to come out of it, being an outsider and all that, but it’s a completely different thing now, once he ended up in the White House, with all the difficult issues confronting him. You might be wondering: why is it that I feel this way? Well, for several reasons, actually. First of all, I’m really disappointed with the way President Obama seems to be under the control of his spin doctors, seemingly afraid to say anything that might land him in trouble. Like it happened so often to Bill Clinton in his early years as President. (People tend to forget...
Why Space Exploration Sucks? A Cynical View Of A Practical Earthling
October 31, 2009
Anton Goryunov writes from Moscow: Deeply distressing news is coming from all over the globe: leaders of different nations are succumbing to the stupid proposals by their eggheads to waste a lot of money on manned flights to distant planets. In Russia the bad news has arrived yesterday when it was revealed that President Dmitry Medvedev has approved in principal a project that envisages creating a nuclear powered spaceship, at an estimated cost of 17 billion roubles (that’s about $350 million) by the year 2020, to fly manned missions to Mars and other planets. I will just say this about the plan: it will cost at least five or six times more than the original projection and will probably be delayed by about 10 years at least. Not to mention another small matter: Russia up to now has not...
More Breaking News Items. From The Stirring Trouble Team
October 30, 2009
We present a new selection of breaking news items. From the Stirring Trouble team. Breaking News: US President Barack Obama admits that one of the policy options on the table as regards Afghanistan is to run like the wind. Breaking News: US Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, manages to keep a straight face while announcing that the recession in America is over. Breaking News: US Vice President, Joe Biden, reveals that his rugged good looks are a result of spending many hours in the White House’s make-up room. Breaking News: White House says that it is looking at a possibility of starting a couple of new wars. To keep the American people on their toes. Breaking News: Pentagon reveals that the war in Afghanistan could be won if all Afghans are killed. Right down to the very last one. Breaking...
This Whole Panic Over Swine Flu Is Becoming Ridiculous. It’s Time To Get Real
October 30, 2009
R.F.Wilson writes: I wonder, I just wonder who was it exactly that suggested to President Barack Obama to introduce a state of emergency in the United States over the swine flu epidemic? Was it, by any chance, one of his slick advisors who has been talking to the giant pharmaceutical companies that are so keen on getting all those juicy contracts for producing billions of vaccines that are supposedly needed to save mankind from the worst disease since the plague? The madness surrounding swine flu reached fever pitch in New York where the local authorities have actually made it obligatory to have an anti-swine flu vaccine. Will the rest of America follow suit, now that the President himself has declared war on the H1N1 virus and even had his two daughters vaccinated? The thing about swine flu...
More Breaking News Items. From The Stirring Trouble Team
October 29, 2009
We present a new selection of breaking news items. From the Stirring Trouble team. Breaking News: U.S. President Barack Obama admits that he still feels a bit odd when people call him Mr President. I often pinch myself to check whether it is not a dream, he says. Breaking News: U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, reveals that he looks so young and vibrant because he never really had a proper job in his life. Breaking News: White House declares that Afghanistan is a democracy. It’s just that not everyone is living in it, White House spokesman says. Breaking News: The U.S. Federal Reserve announces an international competition for the best forged 500 euro bill. We really need some new blood in our system, the Fed says. Breaking News: Iraqi government reveals that at the first sign or trouble...
Yes Minister: The Origins Of The Car In British Political Life
October 29, 2009
R.F.Wilson writes: The Second World War threw into sharp focus a need for the conscription of women into civilian work. A new spirit of egalitarianism (up to a point, women rarely received the same wage as men) saw a select league of young women, as loyal as a naval salute and assorted Kensington debutantes among them, get behind the steering wheel of government and military vehicles. Back in the peacetime groove, austerity remained the lot of all. Former wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill was rumoured to be ‘aghast’ at the expense of taxi and private car hire charges chalked up on government business and his influence led to the emergence of an official car service (now the Government Car Service) in 1946. Many of ministerial rank came to enjoy being chauffeured about by ‘well...
A Cynical Glance At World Events: Would Someone Tell These People…
October 29, 2009
Adam Lovejoy writes: Would someone tell President Barack Obama that he can send as many troops as he wants to Afghanistan but he would still not get the result he hopes for. That is, the resistance to the presence of foreign troops would not subside. It is all very fine for U.S. and NATO commanders in Afghanistan to claim that more boots on the ground would allow to smash the insurgency and, bizarrely, ‘win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people’ – at least that is what General Stanley McCrystal seems to think – but the fact of the matter is that the majority of Afghans would still be treating their ‘liberators’ as invaders. That is why some of the Afghan government troops that are trained by NATO to install democracy in the country actually switch sides, once...
More Breaking News. From The Stirring Trouble Team
October 28, 2009
We present a selection of breaking news items. From the Stirring Trouble team.Breaking News: U.S. president Barack Obama admits that he is scared shitless of visiting China next month and telling his hosts that they can use their U.S. Treasury Bills to wipe their asses with. Breaking News: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says it’s spooky to be ‘just one heartbeat away from the presidency’. Sometimes I get crazy ideas, he says. Breaking News: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admits that she flirts on twitter under a false name of Angela Merkel. Breaking News: Fears grow that the U.S. Federal Reserve has gone mad after it says: ‘La,la,la, we’ve turned the recession into an economic boom!’ Breaking News: American Right says it’s ready to swap places with...
On People Flaunting Their Wealth. And Looking Like Idiots
October 28, 2009
R.F.Wilson writes: Pardon me for asking, but how stupid can you be to flaunt your wealth? I mean really, really show off that you are loaded? You need to be very vain and very thick at the same time to try to impress everyone around you by burning (see the excellent image to this piece created by our designer Paul) your cash and wasting it on stupid things. Why, you might ask, am I saying that flaunting wealth is stupid? Well, let me put it to you in another way: considering the state of things in the world, the poverty, the unemployment, the hunger, the children dying of diseases and whole families living in cardboard boxes: what does it all say about people who buy all those fancy cars, the villas, the yachts, the football clubs and the gold plated toilet seats and bath tubs? Isn’t...
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