Blogger "Wardog" hung out to dry

The ex-blogger formerly known as Wardog has been hung out to dry today by the mainstream media.

The Scotsman, a well known brand of toilet paper of last resort in Scotland, reports that Wardog; blogger, architect and designer Bruce Newlands, is "being investigated" by Robert Gordon University, where he holds a part time lecturing position.  What "being investigated" actually means, the reasons for the investigation and details of who instigated it are conveniently omitted from the story, why complicate it with facts after all - it may just be an unfounded claim and we wouldn't want that in a national Newsfaker would we?

Wardog is an architect who runs his own practice, so obviously the MSM couldn't grass him off to his boss there.  Using his finely honed super-hero investigative skills, which are usually prominent by their absolute absence, the Scotsman's indolent Scottish Political Rewriter in chief Tom Peterkin no doubt Googled Wardog's name, prominently displayed on the "About" panel of his blog, to discover his lecturing position at RGU.

Bruce became aware of just how low the mainstream media are willing to go when the Scotsman and the News of the Screws contacted him last week to say "na na na na na, we know who you are" and ask him to comment on his language and observations, before they attempted to destroy him by running off to the university authorities to report one of their lecturing staff for using a sweary word.  After all he had used the c*** word and had the cheek to assert, they alleged, "unfounded claims."
 
A man who has uttered the cunt word in a blog actually teaches cheeldren - well that's a shocker, the outrage of those self righteous hypocritical hack bastards is beneath contempt.  And of course we've never seen speculation, unfounded claims or opinion poorly disguised as news in our august national news organs, have we now?

Wardog had perhaps ill advisedly referred to horsey faced cunt Jim Murphy MP as a cunt in a post last week.  The reprisal? -  an act of intentional violence against a vociferous pro-SNP blogger, resulting in problems at work, the closure of his blog and an overt attack on his professional standing in Scotland.

Wardog and I rarely saw eye to eye on politics, but he was a fun and well informed commentator with a Nationalist slant and did not deserve this.

I fear this is indicative of a campaign by a lazy MSM to hold the blogosphere to account, or perhaps they just resent the fact that political debate goes on outside their mediocre newspapers and websites, I don't know - but I do know that their desire is to impose press reporting standards on all of us. I don't know if I personally can go that low.

The MSM demonstrate yet again, just how out of touch they are with the modern world - the sooner that oft predicted demise happens the better it will be for all of us...

EDIT:  One thing that is worth bearing in mind is that the press are adopting an easily replicated model for generating lazy non-news through this type of action against bloggers (Nightjack and Belle de Jour).  Simply out a blogger with strident opinions or an interesting story - report them to a concerned employer or interested party and voila, you have a story.  Cheap column inches, and a chance to kick back at new media - be warned.

Another nail in the coffin of blogging?

For scunnert

Here's hoping for a shitty c.unt day for all those deserving recipients, and to their imminent demise; preferably brain cancer, though peeled and salt dipped works for me ...

A special shout out to journalists in teh Scottish meeja:

Hell reserves a special place for you, aspirational filthy skid marks on the pants of journalism. Narrow minded hacks who believe in their own omnipotent supery doopery powers, you know; self appointed, single-handedly securing public safety, enforcing moral rectitude and leaping fallen barstools in a single stagger - go fuck yourself. Hypocrisy is your byline, your byword and will be your downfall; you make politicians look bleached, starched, clean and wholesome - CUNTS.

CoUNT

Arrogant, spastic, snivelling onanists abound; in a virtually unreal world in the unreal real world.

Paranoia, fantasy, a well developed persecution complex, nurtured as only a sociopath can; do not a pretty person make.

The burden of proof lies upon him who asserts it; by the nature of things, he who denies a fact cannot produce proof.

Go forth and express yourself; milked of all ideas your paranoia stands as the pathetic homogenised remnants of a life worth leaving

Do us all a favour, you C...

Fresh fish anyone?

Some of the more bizarre far eastern cuisine culinary delights are hard to swallow; snake blood, beating hearts, dogs, cats, toads and fatally poisonous fish eaten raw amongst others are just a bit too "icky" for our more refined western palates.

Below is a video of a Chinese carp dish, now as I mentioned here previously I thought I had seen it all when it comes to carp.  That was a German dish, they are plainly amateurs - the video features what has got to be the most inexplicable cooked fish dish - I must warn you it is not for the faint hearted...

Return to sender

Courtesy of the Huffington Post, I hear tens of thousands of children all over the world who write letters to Santa at the North Pole this Christmas are unlikely to get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers.

The U.S. Postal Service is dropping the service begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to thousands of letters addressed to Santa each year. Replies come with North Pole postmarks.

A U.S. Postal Service spokesperson said the decision was made to suspend 'Operation Santa' after a postal worker in Maryland recognised a volunteer as a registered sex offender.

What the hell are the USPS thinking?  How far will we go to exercise our illogical aversion to all real or imagined threats to our children? Am I the only one that thinks the fact that the majority of offences against children are committed by family and friends coupled with the fact that the bulk of the remainder are committed by non-registered offenders should be taken into consideration here?

How far do we take this insanity - should all children be taken from their families at birth, locked in state institutions staffed by robots and forbidden contact with the perverted adult population? Mind you I suspect those suspiciously risk averse adults, who spend their professional lives imagining more and more bizarre threats to our kids, are pretty close to announcing just such a policy before next Easter.  After all what could be more suspicious than adults dressed in dodgy Bunny suits giving chocolate to children?

Santa and his Elves are to be made redundant, the length of service payment component of their redundancy is expected to amount to billions of dollars.