Maggie's Farm

As I've written here before, just exactly what is the purpose of the NAACP anymore?

With the election of an African-American to the HIGHEST POSSIBLE OFFICE in your country, surely any argument that "colored people" still need help with their "advancement" rings just a tad hollow?

"'British journalist Matthew Parris wrote an op-ed in September in the London Times asserting, 'If you want to save the planet, stop breeding.'"

Matthew Parris is a homosexual.

So pontificating on overpopulation is easy for him; he has no personal stake in the matter.

On the French, as one "qui les connaissent très bien", the is a vast, hard-working bourgeoisie in that country that is absolutely sick to death of manipulative unions, officious civil servants and indolent Muslim youth.

These are the people Sarko is trying to appeal to.

When the 35-hour work week was introduced in France a few years ago, a NATO buddy of mine, an officer in the French Army, told me a joke that was making the rounds of the barracks. I offer a translation here:

Q: Why are all the civil servants so upset about the new 35-hour week?

A: They just don't think it's fair that they'll have to work an extra five hours.

Moi: "qui les connaissent très bien"?

Non, mais voyons, qu'est-ce que j'ai fait là-haut? Ça doit lire: "qui les connait très bien".

Mes apologies les plus sincères!

"People make pretty irrational assumptions based just on where they live."

Indeed. I recently wrote the following comment in a Canadian blog in response to a question as to why the UK was home to so many "econuts" (specifically in and around London):

"As a Canadian who lived in the UK (London area) for many years until 2007, let me offer my thoughts on this.

Britain is a small country; most of its population is concentrated in very large urban agglomerations (the population base of the London area encompassed by the M25 motorway is two-thirds of the entire population of Canada!).

It is extremely easy if you live somewhere like, say, Croydon (in south London) to come to the conclusion that the world is somehow a cramped, overpopulated, over-industrialized, over-polluted place filled with cracked concrete and vehicle smog.

Many Brits appear to have no real sense of just how vast and empty the world actually is. Those British tourists who get out to Banff, or to the Australian outback - or the occasional intrepid Englishman who ventures to Siberia - are often simply gobsmacked by the sheer unpopulated natural SPACE.

And of course, the other thing is that, with just under twice the population of Canada crammed into such a small area, it's not surprising the UK would have exponentially higher concentrations of ecofascists and environmental crackpots.

(If more Brits actually cared to venture out from the city and head to the Highlands of Scotland, they'd perhaps begin to realize that even their own small island is really quite empty too!)"