Sometimes people are so astonishingly stupid it just takes you breath away. Todays daily record has on its front cover a story which claims that the EU is destroying the scottish fishing industry (and the traditional fish supper) by banning white fish fishing in the North Sea. It is breathless in its condemnation of this as though the evil EU is simply trying to destory peoples lives. However if you look into the story in any depth it becomes apparent that the reason that the ban is going to be put in place is because years of over fishing and fiddling quotas has driven white fish in the North Sea to the brink of extinction. The only chance to prevent their extinction is to stop fishing altogether. What I fail to understand is how you can argue about this. What the fishermen seem to want is to fish until there are no more fish. How is this better - its not going to take long at current rates. They still won't have jobs and there will be no fish.
I've been listening to Bauhaus - In Flat Field and Mask today - excellent retro stuff. Goth done with a great sense of fun rather than this po faced velvet and roses stuff some later bands have turned it into.
I must urge you to check out themanwhofellasleep a fantastic collection of well - I guess web art would be the closest word but that makes it sounds pretentious which it most certainly is not. Give it a try. Brilliant!
There are some changes coming to this site soon as well - a new poetry section and a brand new poetry collection. I am just finishing off one or two poems for it (and still writing the odd thing which sneaks in despite my best intentions) and I have got to do the artwork for it. There is also a new software section coming. I have a few bits and pieces that should have their own page and documentation. Keep an eye out!
Posted by Mark at October 29, 2002 05:51 PM