Rapid Response

it's a tortuous logic but one which makes sense if you're in it I imagine to hide behind wills and processes when wills and processes have , well, gone galloped off around the same time anything approaching a measured approach to history packed its bags and did one jamming a hat on its head like a husband leaving in a fifties melodrama to hold a view you know to be ruinous and keep grinning and bearing it for a higher power which to be honest probably doesn't exist but needs placating as the worst worst thing is better than the other thing which is worse than the worst worst thing as far as you're concerned because those guys like it though when your idea of the thing which is worse than the worst worst thing is simply to go hang on a second, we might be wrong it's such bullshit I can barely stand it

The man who made the muppets says they're not gay of course. It's the "of course" that does it. They don't need to be defined but they're not gay "of course" because "of course" an otherness is bad news for the franchise rights so they've had their moment in the gay sun and now it's back to lives of quiet desperation as someone who may or may not have been gay said not that it matters "of course" as he was generally too far from anyone else to find out though "of course" such definitions are unnecessary unless "of course" the wrong answer is arrived at by everyone trying to calibrate which "of course" is the correctly loaded one. Not that this matters to those muppets who are "of course" constructions of foam and wire, but I suppose there'll be someone along in a minute to make some tedious point about "hey, aren't we all?" to which I'll be f...

I was reading condemnation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a subject about which, to be perfectly frank, I cared little. I was reading about Bert and Ernie from the Muppets being a gay couple, a subject about which, again, I cared little. I mean, beyond it annoying a few people who, ironically, I'd probably refer to as Muppets. But once we get past that, what a Muppet does with another Muppet in the privacy of their own home is entirely up to them. The criticism of the Archbishop of Canterbury came from a television presenter who I vaguely recalled as irritating. He'd been caught up in some form of fraud from a major bank. I felt sorry for him in an abstract sort of sense. But there's only so much pity to go round, and there seemed more deserving cases out there. These, however, were the news items which seemed to be top of the agenda for the day. It's kind of odd what people find interesting. The weather forecast was incorrect, by the by. It's going ...