Randon thoughts to make me look clever

As someone who gets the majority of my political news form news satire panel shows such as mock the week and news quiz, I remain in a relative political ignorant squalor. (I still have no idea why it is expected that I watch the news on a regular basis, and no one has of yet provided a well presented reason that I should. I’m open to suggestions.)

So in order to impress those people that judge me when I say ‘would of’ rather than ‘would have’, I’ve decided to draw up a list of things that I’ve heard in the news but still don’t understand. Some of then might be quite regional, so a few of you will be wondering what the hell I’m talking about.

1. Am I missing a trick or shouldn’t Governor Bush – I say governor because that’s the only elected position of office he has held so far – be tried for war crimes due to the illegal war he started in Iraq

2. Why does Nick Cleg feel he is in a position to ask the speaker to resign when he himself is the leader of a party in which 60% of its SUPPORTERS believe that “It doesn’t matter what the lib dems put in their manifesto as they have no chance of getting into power”. Remember these are SUPPORTERS of the lib dems.

3. On the same  vein, why does the chairman of the PTA (at TBSHS) feel he is in a position to decide whether the school moves site or not when the board of governors was deemed the worst part of the school in the last OFSTED inspection.

4. Seeing as women are more… lets say ‘emotionally developed’, why did Maggie Thatcher think it was an achievement (rather than genetic mutation), that the she wasn’t only the first female prime minister, but the first with a science degree

5. Why does HSBC (the Hong kong Shanghia Banking Corporation) claim to be the LOCAL bank

6. Why does Jeremy Vine feel he is i a position to criticize the bankers  in the  documentary that he presents for getting paid for nothing when he himself, gets paid to do a 20 second intro to a documentary he had absolutely or creative input in

There I feel cleverer already. Who said philosophy is a waste of time. (I still think it has no place in a school though).

Coming soon:
A review of open office 3 (hopefully in the next week)
My trial at a video blog (in the next few months)

STOP THE PRESS

The new open office is out, and it supports .docx files and all the Microsoft office 2007 file types. I haven’t had much time to test it yet, but the new icon designs look quite nice and the UI has been upgraded slightly.

Hopefully, I’ll have time to do a proper test soon

Bump

Since I’ve been terribly busy in the last month, and its only going to get worse in the next few weeks, obviously the view count has dropped significantly.
So in order to quench the insatiable appetite of the hit counter I’ve decided to drag my now lethargic typing fingers once again to the keyboard and write a small post.
But once again, I’m too lazy to actually write out a proper rant, so I’ll just post a link to one of David Mitchel’s ones, so pay attention you ‘handsome bastards’

http://www.channelflip.com/2009/03/12/david-mitchells-soapbox-unusually-smart/