*shakes fist*

It's only the technology of the future. Why would any schoolchild need to learn that?

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I am on a rant at the moment aren't I? I just got in from work and sat down to post about something nice and cuddly. Then I saw this and - boy, it makes me cross.

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What is the plural of 'fiasco'? I have a feeling this may be a regular series...

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'fiasces', pronounced 'faeces'?

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That's gotta be it

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Tehomet, there is a long post on Crooked Timber about the irish financial crisis today

http://crookedtimber.org/2011/12/13/exit-voice-loyalty-and-something-else/

I think the poster, Niamh, is an academic at UC Dublin.

The whole thing is slightly hard for me to follow, but there seems to be a lot of meaty ideas in there.

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Thank you for the link. I wouldn't have seen that article otherwise. I read it and am simultaneously more educated and more depressed about Ireland's financial blight.

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Aaaaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhh. It's the sheer short sighted ideological go fuck yourselves stupidity of Gove and co that drives almost insane with rage.

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I sometimes think I was an idiot not to take the job working for that lot. Then I realise it would have been terrible.

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I think you would have been expected to betray your core values. Every day. I would never condemn anyone for doing what they need to do to bring the bacon home (or tofu in our case), but I still think it would have been difficult. While it might be quite interesting to write an alternative universe short story about civil-servant-in-tory-led-government-communicator, I'm not too sure how the real version would sleep at night.

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What about those findings I quoted. Can you believe it? And it's like everyone has forgotten that it was a deliberate decision.

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It reminded me heavily of those occasions when there'd be some meeting that I thought went badly in terms of the understanding of the non-our-work people attending, and then we'd get back to the office and the senior people would say 'We had a really excellent meeting, and the non-our-work people are completely in synergy (or whatever ghastly phrase was popular at the time) with us.' And you'd look back and ask yourself whether you were at a totally different meeting, or in a parallel universe or something. Extraordinarily sieve-like memories, some people...or just a very deep desire to reinterpret almost every event in a personally favourable light, because the alternative is unthinkable.

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Just seen on Twitter: Those who say "I love you" is the most beautiful three word phrase in English are overlooking the aesthetic glory of "sharks devour Gove".

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A girl can dream

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it would give the sharks indigestion and I don't want to be seen as party to animal cruelty. What about something involve a spit, a hot fire and something terribly slow? Perhaps as a sideshow to the cancer patients who get to control the voltage on the wires taped to IDS's genitals.
Holy to fuck, we need a revolution in this country while there's still a country to save.

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My boss said to me the other day 'I suppose you want to overthrow capitalism' (we were discussing economics). I said, no I want to keep it going as long as possible, because the transition is going to be so violent and horrible. But I think the people in charge are behaving recklessly with the system that they benefit from the most. It's like they want it to fail.

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What's the betting that the next on the block is Ofsted, for daring to find schools wanting. They've already abolished the equivalent vetting service for residential care/nursing homes.

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