Party politics and representative democracy are facing a crisis. Politicised webloggers are a reallity, an ever increasing force for change. The question "But can [blogs] be used politically, and if so, how and to what end?" only indicates to me that the power elite have been caught on the hop, and as per usual are out of touch with what is happening at grassroots level...


Blogging is only part of the answer. Just as important, or maybe more so, is what we do when we are not blogging...




posted by Blogger at 10:39 PM - 

Question.




When is a Weapon of Mass Destruction not a Weapon of Mass Destruction?


Answer.

When it is Wanton Mass Deception.



posted by Blogger at 1:01 AM - 

U.S.A. Man Deus



I met a traveller from an oil-rich land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is George W, president of presidents:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.



posted by Blogger at 9:10 PM - 

Question.




Where does the I stop and the We begin?





posted by Blogger at 12:30 AM - 

Haiku





I feel unfulfilled

I did everything they said

Something is missing




posted by Blogger at 12:31 AM - 

Questions, Questions, Questions.



Where are the WMD?

How much does a war cost?

When will we see through the lies?

Is the Army an equal opportunities employer?

Where is Osama Bin Laden?

Is Free Trade really free?

How many angels fit on the head of a needle?

Is Reality TV an oxymoron?

What is the difference between an oligopoly and a democracy these days?

Do we really live in a civilised society?

Is Guantanamo Bay moral?

Does violence beget violence?

When we hear the truth, how will we know?



posted by Blogger at 1:15 AM - 

Haiku


Magicians rule us

Beware of the sleight of hand

See through the smoke screen




posted by Blogger at 12:54 AM - 

Wake-up Call



So you try your best. After all, thats what they tell you, isn't it? If you try your best, work hard, keep your head down, you can make it. Thats right, isn't it? Work hard and play by the rules and you will be happy and successful and prosperous. So you keep swallowing the shit hoping that the next mouthfull will taste better but it never does. And you're gagging on it!!! What will it take to make you angry? To make you stand back and ask yourself "what the fuck is going on here?"

It takes a jolt, a shock and yeah its the hardest thing to do, to see yourself, really see yourself for the first time, naked without the shit, without the facade, without the lies and deceptions. You start to question everything...Everything...

None of the old assumptions can be taken for granted. About yourself or the world you live in. Its disconcerting. Its exhilerating. You see and hear things differently, like seeing and hearing everything for the very first time...Eventually you realise that every new day is a new beginning and that nothing ever stays the same...Nothing...

posted by Blogger at 11:10 PM -