michael lambe

Lately, I can’t help noticing that the walls of the city are being plastered with political posters by The Happiness Realization Party (幸福実現党 or HRPs as I like to call them). Here’s a picture I took today of HRPs posters heavily outnumbering the poor chap on the Komeito Party poster.  You can practically see the [...]

The Daily Show ran this short piece last week on just how dumb and tantrum prone Sarah Palin is:

Basically the critics accuse her of being stupid, ill-educated and prone to tantrums. Sarah Palin has since hit back by calling them “jerks” and saying “it’s not fair“… thereby pretty much proving their point. Well, one thing [...]

At the clinic this morning, one of the English conversation group’s was what chinese character would you choose to sum up this year? I chose the kanji for hope: 望. Barack Obama winning the American Presidency this week has given me hope. It’s the first really good news I can remember hearing for the last [...]

Recently organisations I basically agree with have annoyed me by muddying their messages with bad propaganda. Yesterday, for example Greenpeace sent out a mail that read:
The world could eliminate fossil fuel use by 2090 — That’s what Reuters and NewScientist wrote today about our new Energy [R]evolution plan. We can beat climate change. And with [...]

Message from avaaz:
Watching the markets freefall, we know this crisis will utterly change our daily lives — we’re not just spectators any more, and we’re seeing something new –- people and governments directly intervening in the chaos that until now was controlled by reckless and greedy financiers.
Today and all weekend, extraordinary choices will be made [...]

This is both funny and terrifying at the same time.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
You can watch it on a bigscreen here: LINK

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The problem with blogging is that unless you are an anonymous blogger and the peeps that read you are total strangers, there is no way you can write about the really juicy stuff that happens to you day by day because if you did you’d land yourself in a whole heap of shit with a [...]

In an attempt to actually make some money from my unhealthy blogging obsesson, I’ve been tweaking this blog (and Deep Kyoto also) a lot recently; adding an extra column and a lot of amazon stuff, mp3 players etc… Let me know if it get’s annoying. Up on Deep Kyoto tonight there is a fresh post [...]

It looks like Taro Aso is the new Prime Minister. Here’s today’s BBC article on his selection as leader of the ruling party: LINK For some reason in every BBC article they talk about “Mr Aso’s brash straight-talking style and charisma – he is known for his love of adult manga cartoons”… Why does liking [...]

Just a quick word from Avaaz.org:
The global financial crisis is spilling over into our lives, threatening jobs, savings, pensions and public services everywhere — worldwide recession could be next, while the public bears the cost. It’s time for citizens around the world to raise our voices and demand that the fundamental causes of this crisis [...]