Twitter Block

Last night I signed up to a Twitter account @SamBurnsPI and suddenly had a severe case of twitter block.  I've never really got into tweeting despite it being a thoroughly acceptable form of social networking.  The whole point of Twitter is that you are rewarded for having something interesting or funny to say in a concise manner.  Facebook is the complete opposite.  Inane comments get ridiculous amounts of feedback and people feel motivated to go into the most insignificant details of their life and talk about them as if they were Anne Frank.  Its not until you start tweeting that you realise how bloody hard it is to say something that people will read and follow.  Tonight I have tweeted about the fact that Jupiter is in close proximity to the moon.  If that isn't a Facebook comment I don't know what is.  Maybe I should tweet the fact that I have a cup of tea and really feel like eating a cheese sandwhich.

Melanie Phillips and a Headache from Hell

Saturday morning headache.  Up late last night watching starship troopers.  A clever film in its own stupid way.  I don't know what is scarier - a war with giant insects and arachnids or the perverse world view that the future inhabitants of Earth had.  I think I may  be looking into things too much.  Melanie Phillips was on Question Time on Thursday which always gets me worked up.  It surprises me that people will read and listen to such hateful nonsense.  I particularly enjoyed her rant about Richard Bransons suggestion that drug use should be decriminalised.  In one foul swoop she dismissed an entire country as useless, denounced Richard Bransons report as false and quoted an unnamed "more authoritive" report that said that Armageddon had been the result of the Portuguese drug policy.  She rounded it off by agreeing that drug users weren't criminals making the whole diatribe a complete waste of time but somehow failing to dent what seems to be an impenetrable shield of self-satisfied smugness.  She had in two short minutes given us a clear example of shoddy journalism and how facts get in the way of right wing thinking.  Watch it on iPlayer its a treat.  She was so effective at being utterly contemptible that the token Tory Liz Truss MP had relatively little to say.  For the sake of fairness I should also point out that David Lammy would have done a lot better if he actually was Howard from the Halifax adverts and that any point he was making  could not get through the noise generated from the annoying advert alert ringing in your brain.