I aten’t dead (reprise)

Yes it has been the silly season and we have taken a step back from the computer screen. Between a marathon of pre-season football frenzy (Britghton, Charity Shield, Metz and Metz again as well as Luxembourg’s great victory against Lithuania) and desperate attempts to enjoy the laid back season we did not really keep our regular appointment on this site.

The silly season did not disappoint what with fatwahs in the form of libel and a very twisted concept of what the freedom of expression (and subsequent right to control it) means in a liberal democracy we still had much with what to be amused. Very amusing was the belated discovery in some quarters of the very Labour idea that “so long as it is an opinion then it is right”. Also in some quarters we saw the return of the “they voted AD” label as though this was some kind of equivalent to the Star of David to be worn in Nazi times.

The inference that a reader is supposed to make from the “they voted AD” label is that the carrier of such a label is responsible for the predicament that our poorly nation finds itself in. Sad really. Given how the current incumbent found its way into power thanks to the sloppiness and hopelessness of what many wrongly considered as the “only viable alternative” it would be much easier to put the blame of having Joseph in government fairly and squarely on the doorstep of those who pushed the sorry line of a government that was anything but viable as an alternative.

Yes. Once you ask yourself how this bunch of incompetent fools currently running the show managed to attract a swing of 30,000 votes and more in their favour you will get only one honest answer: because the alternative to this bunch of incompetent fools was not exactly attracting the points. Blame AD? Might as well shoot yourself in the foot. Keep at it and you’re giving Joseph a free ride to the next election with your baseless pontificating.

Anyways. This blog is taking one last long week of sabbatical – off to charge our batteries in our island home (and hoping that Bondi has not eaten all the Dentici). We leave you with a new J’accuse quote for 2013… hoping to see you all back in September.

“Just as you began to really believe that ‘knowledge is power’ you realise that stupid is making itself quite comfortable on the throne.”