Tag Archives: Terrorism

We blew it.

Posted on 11/11/2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Leonard Cohen once prophesied ‘Democracy is coming, to the USA’. But despite its lyrical brilliance I highly doubt he would have pictured Donald Trump ever becoming America’s president when ‘Democracy’ was penned twenty-five years ago. I recognise there’s something macabre … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Cohenism is better than all the other isms, Democracy is coming to the USA, Destructive soapboxing, Digitalism, Disengaged age, Donald Trump, Easy Rider, Facebook, Gone for politics as the category but I dunno really, Justifiably karmic, Leonard Cohen, Media, Newspapers, Nigel Farage, Piousness, Reaganism, RIP Lenny, Terrorism, Thatcherism, The Future, The Simpsons were right, Twitter, We blew it, Will people wake up and stop being so cuntish?, Wyatt and Billy blew it too man | 2 Comments

Terrorism, a word thoroughly abused.

Posted on 28/11/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

If there’s one thing that’s really been getting on my tits recently it’s how the word Terrorism is wielded. In truth it always has done. Terrorism, if we take its literal meaning, and ignore its widely implied use by politicians and … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Anders Breivik, Bombdogs, Dickheads, Fascism, Go on Chris make a Brass Eye special on Terrorism, Hedonism, Hypocrisy, Islamic State, Jihadism, Nobody worries about it, Politics, Terrorism | Leave a comment

General Election 2015 – The Final Countdown

Posted on 05/05/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

And so here we are on the verge of a General Election, and yes, this is just what everybody needs, another mouthy dickhead with a blog writing a highly speculative article about it, because there haven’t been nearly enough of … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Blackmail, Blairism, BNP, Chuka Umunna, Crack cocaine, Creationism, Cuntism, Daily Mail, David Cameron, Douglas Alexander, DUP, Ed Miliband, England, FPTP, From Bury to Borehamwood, General Election 2015, Gennie Leckies, Holyrood, Irish Reunification, It's The Final Countdown by fucking Journey, Jim Murphy, Jimbo, Judas, Justin Bieber, Krokodil, Labourities are shite, Lib Dems, Mhairi Black, Mortal Kombat, Muppets, Nick Clegg, Nicola Sturgeon, Nigel Farage, Nigel Farage is a cunttwat, Nigel Farage is a twat, Northern Ireland, Oswald Mosley, Plaid Cymru, schadenfreude, Scotland, Scottish Independence, Scottish Labour, Screenwipe, SDLP, Sinn Fenn, SNP, Telepathic seals trying to make our kids transgender and dat, Terrorism, Thatcherism, Too many tags lad!, Tory Bastards, Tory McTernan, UKIP, Wales, Welsh Independence, Westminster, Xenophobia | 1 Comment

The link between the Charlie Hebdo massacre & Ched Evans, did I get it right?

Posted on 04/02/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

I’ve been asking myself that one more than usual since I wrote this article, in which I linked the futile attitudes and beliefs that motivated the imbeciles who committed the Charlie Hebdo massacre to those who are actively trying to … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Austerity is a lie, Being right, Being wrong, Charlie Hebdo, Ched Evans, Fracking, George Orwell, I'm with stupid, Intolerance, Me being all pious again, Not very modest am I?, Our culture of self-delusion, Politics, Rapists, SNP, Stupidity, Terrorism | Leave a comment

What do the Charlie Hebdo killers and Ched Evans hounders have in common? Intolerance, and stupidity.

Posted on 14/01/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

We live in interesting times, and this last week’s events have only served to reaffirm two central truths, namely that same people, too many people – okay me too – are now taking themselves and their beliefs too seriously, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Anders Breivik, Branding, Cartoonists, Charlie Hebdo, Ched Evans, Intolerance, Islam, Islamists, Islamists are stupid, Mocking, Stupidity, Terrorism | 1 Comment