Idiot wind (it’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe)
All kinds of boring people are continuously advising us to think outside the box, these days. Obviously, people who love to live in cliché houses wouldn’t recognize a real thought if it would poke them in the eye or run circles round them like an runaway crack emu.
Still, it is always nice to explode yet another tiresome mid-management myth, so, here’s a good luck and un très bon voyage to at least one guy who found out that you can really get where you want to go if you place yourself solidly inside a box.
Anyway, one should always look on the bright side. So yes, one guy escapes from jail and that always makes all those poor, dedicated police officers look bad - but hey, it also means that now they have a nice empty cell, ready and waiting for some other criminal; perhaps that bicycle thief that someone caught on camera.
Mind you, it will take more than one locked-up bicycle thief to put the smile back on the face of a certain Norwegian police chief. I’m not sure the proverb Happy as a wombat exists, but if it does, this guy sure ain’t. What is sure is that that old saw Crime doesn’t pay could do with a reality check.
By the way, one guy who has never been into reality checks all that much was at it again yesterday. Yes, we’re talking about loveable George, of course, the president of the US of A. Whenever he opens his mouth these days, he shows he’s so bad at reading the signs of the times that one wonders what those good folks who did a study about map reading ability and sexuality would make of old Double Duh’s bedroom fantasies.
It’s a good things that you can buy the presidency (and if that doesn’t quite work, steal it) because if Bush had had to go through all the normal channels - i.e. writing a letter and then later, in an interview, explaining, in a coherent fashion, why he thought he would be suited for the job - he wouldn’t have been able to land even the lowest McJob on offer.
Anyway, yes, so, he was at it again. He made it known that he didn’t think the American soldiers needed a pay rise. Well, there’s a surprise. Since he also didn’t think the troops needed proper protective gear or decent medical care when they got wounded, it isn’t such a big shocker that the president didn’t think that soldiers should be paid decent wages, while they were fighting his stupid & probably illicit war.
It was, on the other hand, quite breathtakingly vile, that in the same moment Bush proposed yet another tax break for the absurdly rich. As if Haliburton and all the other true president’s men hadn’t made enough money over the broken body of Iraq and the dead bodies of the American soldiers who were sent out on a wing and a prayer and a pack of cynical lies.
Dick Cheney and Tony Blair, by the way, were also singing from the same warped hymn sheet. Cheney, in yet another firebrand speech, had another go at the Geneva Convention, while Blair wrote an article in the English Guardian, in which he claimed that all those judges who put emphasis on civil rights were, as it were, extremely ill-judged.
Somewhere, in some mountain cave, Osama must be laughing his head off.
Still, we can end on a more positive note. This week, Vladimir Putin showed the world he was in a much more reconciliatory mood than he had been lately. In fact, he clearly extended the hand of friendship to the American and English leaders.
By having his police beat up and then incarcerate a group of gay petitioners, he more or less directly told Bush, Cheney and Blair that he was a man they could do business with: someone who was happy to come out and show that he had the exact same high moral values as his Western colleagues.
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