Home
Stumbling and Mumbling: The economics of the Peter principle
"Competitive careers systems have an inherent tendency to promote the least productive individuals, thus leading to mediocracy.
The intuition for this result comes from the fact that more productive people have better fall-back positions than less productive ones when failing in the competition for top positions. "
Police fury as officers are banned from changing lightbulbs or ordering toiler paper
"Police officers are furious after being told they were not allowed to order replacement toilet paper or change lightbulbs at two privately-built 'super-stations'. Staff at Medway and North Kent Police stations, which were funded privately as part of a Private Finance Initiative (PFI), told how a formal process was necessary for tasks as simple as choosing where to place rubbish bins."
New Statesman - The Rod Liddle affair
-
Sunny - wouldn't normally reply as I genuinely believe you to be the most stupid human being I have even encountered, on the net, or in the world.
Normalizing the Crime of the Century by John Pilger
"The purpose of the Chilcot inquiry is to normalize an epic crime by providing enough of a theater of guilt to satisfy the media so that the only issue that matters, that of prosecution, is never raised. When he appears in January, Blair will play this part to odious perfection, dutifully absorbing the hisses and boos."
Who will save Gaza's children?
"Never mind Copenhagen, an environmental catastrophe is going on right now – contaminated water is poisoning babies in Gaza"
FT: Read his lips - more new taxes
"The jibe against Labour chancellors is that in the end they always run out of money. The twist provided by Alistair Darling is that having run out of money, he nevertheless plans to go on spending."
Dennis Perrin: The Best Distraction
"Given the number of women (Tiger Woods) fucked, I'm amazed he avoided detection this long. As Michael O'Donoghue once told me, being rich is one thing, but screw being famous. This merely puts you in the crosshairs, fresh carrion for the culture to ravage. "
Tim Worstall - Bank bonus idiocy
"Apparently our Chancellor believes that payroll taxes are paid by employers, not taken out of the hides of the workers. No wonder the economy’s fucked with ignorance like that on display. - "The charge will cover bonuses awarded between 9 December 2009 and 5 April next year." - Pay ‘em on April 6th then……"
The J-Walk Blog: Creationists And Climategate
"The Institute for Scriptural Geology in Waco, Texas, today offered "unswerving support and fervent prayers" for the scientists caught up in Climategate. Professor Elmer Moody, director of the institute, told a press conference: "We know what it's like to have the integrity of our research questioned by unbelievers, so our hearts go out to those good folks at the East Anglican University. "
Via John Brissenden: Real Terrorism
"Terrorism is here. What’s going on in Mexico is nothing BUT terrorism, perpetrated by the cartels, the army, the police, and the businessmen associated with them. And the strangest reality of it all is that we are the primary sponsor for it. We sponsor terrorism. Billions of dollars worth of drugs come here every year, and we exert the majority of our efforts to ‘stop’ it on nailing poor black people selling 5$ and 10$ bags of crack and heroin and sending them away for decades under Rockefeller Laws and similar legislation."
Comic Dara O'Briain says libel laws 'quash dissent'
"Libel laws in England and Wales are being used to bully people into silence and quash dissent, campaigners including comic Dara O'Briain claim. O'Briain told the Law Society he backed calls to reform the "ridiculous system" that was attracting "libel tourists". "
Get prisoners off drugs? Don’t be so silly
"Naive people — by which I mean most of us — struggle with the idea that prisons are awash with drugs. We struggle even more with the notion that within prisons street drugs are now topped up with the heroin substitute methadone, administered by the State along with the porridge."
Thieves steal artist's £3,000 brick... and replace it with 40p version
"A £3,000 brick on show at an art exhibition has been stolen - and replaced with a 40p version. Artist Gavin Turk's 'Revolting Brick' work was taken from its plinth at an exhibition in Peckham, south east London. It was replaced with a blackened brick emblazoned with the words: 'Thank You Have A Nice Day, Next.'"
Darling soaks the rich and the rest of us
"Alistair Darling risked alienating key swing voters today when he announced a surprise increase in national insurance for 10 million middle income earners and pay cuts for nearly 4 million public sector workers, in the biggest spending squeeze since the 1970s."
Secondhand Marquee Traditional and Pole tents
-
Bar
Swerve - BusA self-contained, Bristol VR, double decker bus
which has been stylishly converted into a fully functional mobile bar.
On
the lower deck serving space is over 2 custom built bars measuring 11 metres in
length in total.
Plan a 'make and do' Britain and Labour could flourish | Jackie Ashley | Comment is free | The Guardian
-
"make and do"
BBC News - Artist Wright wins Turner Prize
-
The award jury said they "admired the profound originality and beauty" of Wright's work.
Man faces prison for leaving water in desert
"A US judge has threatened to sentence a man to 25 days in prison for littering after he left out jugs of water for thirsty illegal immigrants in the Arizona desert. "
Gordon Brown snubbed by soldiers' 'curtain' protest
"Gordon Brown was snubbed by badly injured Afghan veterans when they closed curtains round their beds during a hospital visit and refused to speak to him. More than half the soldiers being treated at the Selly Oak hospital ward in Birmingham either asked for the curtains to be closed or deliberately avoided the prime minister, according to several of those present. The soldiers, who have sustained some of the worst injuries seen in Afghanistan, described his visit as “opportunistic” and a “waste of time”. "
Top Tags
Sponsored Links
View All Recent Tags (22)
- 20291109,
- 19061209,
- 18051209,
- 10side,
- 8climate,
- 8global-warming,
- 8debunk,
- 7paperround,
- 7climategate,
- 6science,
- 6281109,
- 3usa,
- 2politics,
- 1guff,
- 1maldives,
- 1thermomaniacs,
- 1soa,
- 1uspolitics,
- 1poliblogging,
- 1andrewsullivan,
- 1right,
- 1republicans
Public Tags (593)
Highlighter, Sticky notes, Tagging, Groups and Network: integrated suite dramatically boosting research productivity. Learn more »
Join Diigo