Every religion is universal.

Almost a throaway comment, softly spoken at the end of a short "human interest" piece which probably nobody saw, busy as they were with seemingly more important things. So much trouble and noise that no one noticed the most radical phrase ever pronounced on television. Every religion is universalSure, we still have all ( Read more... )

Long gone are the days when logging in to LJ gave you the pulse of the moment. I don't imagine everyone is quiet about the result of the British EU referendum, but I'm guessing it's all happening on Facebook. A country from whose bourne rare is the traveller who returns. Ah well ( Read more... )

WOW. Ok, so, this is from 2006 so I guess I should have seen it before. But I hadn't, and people, it just blew my mind. I'm sitting here aghast. This actually happened?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X93u3anTco

So, this one healthcare company bought its way out of having to try to make an effort not to kill its patients. Fuckin' ay, America, never change!

So, this one guy stole a road. All 50km of it. Fuckin' ay, Russia, never change!

I hear an artist's name and from the context decide to listen to him. I look him up and find he's got different types of album out. What will I like? How am I to choose a record out of that lot? Looking through his website I find this:

The writing of [track one] led to the writing of track five, 'The Day That You Were Born', a song for my daughter ( Read more... )

Today the sky was the bluest I have ever seen it. It almost made my eyes water and the contrast with the black boughs of leafless trees was so intense I was transported.

Drug users will be able to use supervised injecting rooms in Dublin next year, followed shortly afterwards by Cork, Galway and Limerick, according to the Minister in charge of the National Drugs Strategy.Hurrah! Slowly but steadily, there are more and more signs that things are going to change in this stupid, criminal "war on drugs". Now it's ( Read more... )

Stranded in M. Never heard of the place. I leave the station into the cool autumn night, all the lights on the canal softened in the fog. Walking with no direction, expecting a hotel will turn up at some point. Rather than bothered by the expense and inconvenience I find myself filled with a sense of beauty. I can't see the town, for all I know it' ( Read more... )

Oh dear. Well, I suppose quoting Timothy Leary to people who, if they know anything about him in the first place, probably consider him the worst sort of irresponsible tosser is not going to be any consolation. But here's what he'd say: if elections changed anything they would be made illegal ( Read more... )