Sarcasm alert.

This is my last week of holiday before I am sadly obligated to return to that “other” place for the majority of the year with only small bits of time in which escape is possible.
The previous week has not inspired much optimism. Nutso the Clown, the strange little Chinese man who has come to worship the ground I walk on for no other reason than the accident of my having been born in Germany, left me 5 voice mail messages after not having bothered me for several months. Well, at least since that time he rang me up over 80 times in 2 days after I told him to sod off. (I’ll spare all of you the sordid details, but will state with full confidence that the man is a slime and more than a little disturbed)

Other than that, the university has inspired another rant. Continue reading “Sarcasm alert.”

We’re Talking Crabs – part 1

It’s the peak of crabbing season here and this is all about crabs and crabbing. I am told that when get on a subject that interests me I often have to be brought up sharply with a loud “Shut up man! You’re boring people”.  So don’t say you were not warned.

The crabs in question are the Atlantic Blue Crab, more specifically those that thrive in what H. L. Mencken (one of my favorite drunks) called “that great protein factory, Chesapeake Bay”.

Here’s a bushel basket of blues just to set the scene

Continue reading “We’re Talking Crabs – part 1”

What does the ACPO think it’s doing?

We have already seen the UK Courts defying the elected government, preferring to follow the line dictated by the EUSSR.

Now, mirabile dictu, we have the unedifying spectacle of the Association of Chief Police Officers openly defying the Prime Minister.   I hold little truck for Cameron, who is a weak and deceitful post-holder (but then he’s a politician, so what do you expect?), but the government is the government and ultimately the various police forces must do as they are instructed.

Or are we really facing the prospect of an EUSSR-run police state, with Parliament and the government sidelined and “the people” even further removed from any democratic principles?   Strange place, the UK.   It is not the country I left 20 years ago.