Category: Politics

Poppy Wars: This Isn’t Just A Game, Y’Know

Posted on by Kelly Welles

If you want to wear a poppy to show your respect for the war dead, wear one. If you don’t, don’t.

Either way, it wouldn’t hurt the majority of people blathering on about how it’s disrespectful to wander around without a cardboard and plastic flower in one’s lapel spent their time more productively. Like perhaps making sure everyone (especially the next generation) know that wars actually occur, and aren’t merely a figment of some random software developer’s fevered imagination.

Image: REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol.

Reflections: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi

Posted on by Kelly Welles

We reserve the right to make judgements on people based on their actions. And not too many of us would dispute that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was a dictator who imposed and presided over a brutal regime, was responsible for thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands living in fear and suffering.

So we’re entitled to feel anger towards him, right?

But our actions are a reflection of us, too. What are we when we watch him being dragged from a drain pipe, beaten and then shot to death? What about when his body is paraded through the streets of Sirte and then put on display in a meat locker so locals can take souvenir photos on their mobile phones and we can look at them over our cornflakes? Should we feel ok about that because he was very bad man?

It would’ve been nice to show the world why Gaddafi was so wrong in his actions. Not mimic them.

Image: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

Occupy: Entirely The Wrong Position

Posted on by Kelly Welles

Naomi Wolf is an author, journalist and political activist. In light of this information, the NYPD would probably acknowledge that arresting her for asserting protesters rights on a New York pavement during Occupy Wall Street was probably a mistake.

Image: Mike Shane/Animal New York via thecutline.

Barack Obama: Life Thru His Lenses

Posted on by Kelly Welles

‘Ohmigod, you were right! The world IS on the brink of economic collapse and millions of people ARE slipping below the poverty line every day while those in charge don’t seem to have a clue what to do. These ‘reality’ specs are totally amazing!’

Image: REUTERS/Jason Reed.

Google Translate Says: Eff Off With Your Political Campaigning!

Posted on by Kelly Welles

Is it the capitalisation of the word ‘not’? Maybe it’s the red highlighting. But does anyone else get the feeling that there have been one or two unwelcome visitors to this Las Vegas office building?

Image: Ethan Miller/Getty Images.