Urbex. Baby, I'm so slow...

I just found this amazing site. Bunch of guys explore breaking down buildings, just for kicks. Some really beautiful, haunting photography.

Click the Rabbit hOle to find it...

It's a forum site so look for the "report" links

Ignorance and Bliss are the Kiss of a Pig

It's nothing new that Barack Obama's latest statement has landed him in hot water:

"You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig."

The evidence against him has been bandied around at great length already. The initial criticism being that Barack Obama had offended and thus further alienated a number of female voters some of whom are already believed to have been won over by the Republican party's surprising appointment of a woman vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin. This is confusing in itself; should offense be taken that Obama might have compared Palin to a pig and not the self-flattering "pitbull in lipstick" she had made herself out to be?

Probably not. And if he did mean it, I think he actually dealt her something of a compliment. It is common knowledge that pigs are one of the most intelligent mammals, though not the most noble of creatures; as they are also well known for bathing in mud & faeces. As well as eating swill without finding a pearl (that's Dolphins, right?)

Socrates himself made the comparison between the temperament of the pig and human beings as being heavily weighted in the pig's favour. Onboard a sinking ship a human will panic and cry, whereas a pig will often go with the rocking flow of the boat, content in their ignorance. Humans easily become mired in their own complex emotional frameworks, such as being paranoically offended over minor turns of phrase, and lose sight of consideration for others and the simpler (cheaper) pleasures in life. The nature of the pig is a similar attitudinal state to that of the Pyrrhonian sceptics, who promoted freedom from high-minded thought and other, other-worldly considerations, such a philosophy and politics.

Perhaps then Obama has made a veiled nod toward an ancient philosophical problem he sees as a dominating feature in modern politics. He has drawn out for us a crucial paradox that whilst humans are often content to see themselves as highly articulate and ridden with deep thought and selflessness, especially when compared to our animal brethren, so many of us are often loathed to forget our deep seated alleigances (to be sure, some of us never forget) so stuck in our ways, so eager to reach the trough, and much like the stubborn donkey, we plough a blind-minded furrow we believe righteous, whatever the cost to other people. Which, ironically, makes us seem just as ignorant as the free 'n' easy piggies over whom we claim mental superiority, lipstick or no.

'Cus nothing sucks like a McDonalds

What's it like to work for McDonalds?

Shit, apparently...

Meaty Tower of Babel Facing Collapse!

See my previous article about not eating meat to avoid the so-called "Credit-Crunch", or click here

Cindy McCain: Plastic spitting Politik.

I've never seen anyone so fake. Watching Cindy McCain's speech at the Republican convention in Minnesota has left me sick and scared. Anyone who sees "Hockey-Mom" as a good qualification to help lead one of the greatest potential nations in the world (when referring to the Republican V.P. candidate, Sarah Palin. See nutty picture below)


Everything Mrs. McCain says suggests to me that she has a pull string lodged deep in her plastic spine. She talks about goodness/righteousness/justice/equality as some kind of simple universal properties that only certain people (White Conservative Republicans) are capable of possessing. I think it's a good thing to aspire to such grand ideals, Obama makes similar claims, but to see yourself (and your entire family line, when she celebrates four generations of McCains being involved in various wars and killing people) as being the embodiment of such perfection is an exercise in pure delusion as great a folly as the notion of colonial righteousness in manifest destiny.

She refers to John (McCain) as a leader of "great strength", because he spent six years in a Vietnamese prison camp. Does this constitute a war hero? What I am certain of is that at the grand old age of 72 McCain ain't quite what he used to be. Reagan was accussed of senility (McCain constantly nods towards him as a kind of great precedent to excuse his own old-age) particularly in his second term. If McCain serves two consecutive terms, without croaking and handing power over to "Hockey-Mom" incaranate, then he will be approximately 80 years old when he finishes his presidency, ready to be wheeled out at public ceremonies, or kept in a Futurama-jar, point being: He will be well past the best of his faculties, both physical and mental and that is dangerous for all concerned.

But what really gets me about the latest lying mouth of all time is her constant gesturing and posing. Like James Dean she pouts and preens after every second sentence, as if her pauses were so precious and inward reaching that we should all find the Great American Spirit within ourselves as we are fortunate enough to witness her own playacting in self-deception. Cindy McCain recieved so much more applause when she didn't say anything it compels me to wonder: If she were able to shut her damn mouth right up until the election period, then the Republicans will surely win the Presidential race. However, knowing how eager she is to spill vision over substance and logical rhetoric, to stand pretty and tall, much like a lamp shade by her ailing husband's side, she will probably speak again. And again. And again. There is hope for the Democrats yet.

There's so much White in the Stars and Stripes"-Manic Street Preachers