Yes, we can, but...

The midterm election campaigns have started and I’m pretty sure it’s going to be a tough time for Obama’s team. President Obama even went on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show to try and get his message across.

Also no matter whatever news channel coverage you look at, they always seem to use a common set of stock phrases. It’s kind of like playing bingo; I mean you might even get a full house by the end of a program ;)

The British Police

A random collection of news articles that I’ve read over this last month which all have one theme in common – the police. Certain people find the presence of a friendly policeman in their local community a reassuring presence. A policemen patrolling the streets to make them safer – great. Policemen tweeting and blogging about what they’re doing on duty – slightly weird if I’m honest.

Something else that caught my eye was the following...

Squatters – not even the police are exempt, lol. And speaking of homes, anyone fancy living in a disused prison?

Like I said before, a little random today ;)

Darwin dating? Since when?

I read an article in the Metro today which was advertising what an essentially a dating website for ‘ugly people’. In a society where everything is over policed and critically analysed these days, how on earth did this mange to slip through the net?

Those people that do sign up must be comfortable in their own skin but it raises issues of self confidence in my mind. Reading further on, the article describes how ‘Ugly Bugs’ (the dating wesbite) is a antidote to the popular ‘Darwin Dating’ – the dating website for beautiful people.

Again I ask, how was that allowed? Judging a book by its cover does not give you the whole story and personally I find objectifying people into distinct groups is a little unethical. I mean I’m not saying people don’t do it (as they quite clearly do!) but I don’t think we should be promoting it. The only thing in the article that did make me laugh was when I learned that the creator of the Darwin Dating website had his own profile reject by the site! Just deserts anyone?