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I Think I Know Why I’m Here

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Another confession: my eldest son hopes to enter Parliament some day.  We try not to feel ashamed of him even though he could have chosen a more respectable profession, like burglary.

Now the reason for this post: I was trawling my old notebooks and I came across a couple of jottings which I thought you might find amusing.

The first one is from the Manchester Evening News letters Page in 2008:

When brain transplants become possible, government ministers should not be allowed to ‘opt out’ as donors – after all, theirs have hardly been used.

Brian Christley, Abergele.

The second is a quote from American journalist H.L. Mencken:

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

I like it so much, I found some more by Mencken at Brainy Quote:

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

They say every blog finds its own reason for existing and, two posts in, it looks like mine has hers – politician bashing.

Sorry, son.