some pigs are more equal than others

The new artwork on the side of Saint John's church in Edinburgh makes a nice comment on the greedy pigs-in-the-trough mentality of so many of the right dishonourable Members of Parliament who've been caught with their sticky trotters in the cookie jar, grabbing every bit of tax payer's money they could rip off.

Lippygate

Barack Obama is being accused of sexism and attacking Sarah Palin with his comment "You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. You can wrap up an old fish in a piece of paper and call it change. It's still going to stink after eight years. We've had enough." Some took it to be a reference to right-wing Palin's recent and oh so charming 'the difference between a hockey mom and a rottweiler is lipstick' speech. The whole thing has been taken out of context though and it seems now he might have meant to say "you can give a pig an assault rifle and let it shoot up a family planning clinic but its still a pig." Which is completely different.

Actually I've been watching in vain for someone to post a follow-up to a recent but not confirmed report that VP hopeful Palin, at the start of her political career as the mayor in small town Alaska, called in the local librarian to ask how she went about having books she didn't approve of removed from the library, a pretty serious and heavy-handed bit of interference if true and an action which would speak volumes of her character, but sadly beyond the original report none of the major news agencies seem to be following it up. You can give a pig a library card but at the end of the day it might remain a close-minded, ignorant pig...