Stretching the concept of "diversity" to its very limits...
From wikipedia's definition of "Ableism"
"The ableist worldview holds that disability is an error, a mistake, or a failing, rather than a simple consequence of human diversity, akin to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender"
Using this same child like logic no one really gets ill either, they just exhibiting diverse health levels.
Monday 1 August 2011
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Germany abandons Nuclear
Wonder what they shall make up the remainder with? Gas maybe?
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-05-31/u-k-winter-gas-power-advance-after-german-nuclear-decision.html
“The Japanese tragedy could lead to a setback for the world’s nuclear renaissance and leave gas as the fuel of ‘no choice’ in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, where voters could decide against the nuclear option,” Thierry Bros, a senior analyst at Paris-based Societe Generale SA, said in a note dated May 30.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-05-31/u-k-winter-gas-power-advance-after-german-nuclear-decision.html
“The Japanese tragedy could lead to a setback for the world’s nuclear renaissance and leave gas as the fuel of ‘no choice’ in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, where voters could decide against the nuclear option,” Thierry Bros, a senior analyst at Paris-based Societe Generale SA, said in a note dated May 30.
"Unacceptable" is the new "Political Correctness Gone Mad"
In another of those endless streams Daily Mail headlines about how some jobs-worth has once again completely failed to use any common sense, and has instead applied some dunder-headed groupthink, we find that Nathaniel Newton Infant School in Nuneaton has disciplined two boys for playing "Soliders".
So, in the usual style, one will hear the appropriate, but now dreadfully tired "Political correctness gone mad" chant. I'm not sure if people actually say this any more, newspapers seem to like to just bung the phrase into the story somewhere.
But the jobs-worth's have their own tiresome buzzwords and phrases too. The school in question labelled the Boys' behaviour as "Unacceptable". A current favourite weasel word of politicians, used almost as often as "lessons learned". It's one of those infuriating uses of a word, like people who put "FACT" at the end of a sentence, as if that somehow makes it true.
If something is "Unacceptable", please follow it up with detailed reasons why. Doing otherwise is completely unacceptable. FACT.
So, in the usual style, one will hear the appropriate, but now dreadfully tired "Political correctness gone mad" chant. I'm not sure if people actually say this any more, newspapers seem to like to just bung the phrase into the story somewhere.
But the jobs-worth's have their own tiresome buzzwords and phrases too. The school in question labelled the Boys' behaviour as "Unacceptable". A current favourite weasel word of politicians, used almost as often as "lessons learned". It's one of those infuriating uses of a word, like people who put "FACT" at the end of a sentence, as if that somehow makes it true.
If something is "Unacceptable", please follow it up with detailed reasons why. Doing otherwise is completely unacceptable. FACT.
Tuesday 26 April 2011
Dark Mountain
Came across this bunch of crackpots today. In the post peak oil crash these fools have decided that the answer is Artists! Mind you, you'll need something to entertain you in-between killing the mutants outside your hovel with your shotgun.
From their manifesto
"That response is too important to be left to politicians, economists, conceptual thinkers, number crunchers; too all-pervasive to be left to activists or campaigners. Artists are needed."
From their manifesto
"That response is too important to be left to politicians, economists, conceptual thinkers, number crunchers; too all-pervasive to be left to activists or campaigners. Artists are needed."
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