International Trust Your Government Week

December 20th to 27th is International Trust Your Government Week, promoted by the United Nations to encourage temporary respect for elected officials and bureaucrats alike regardless of party affiliation, election legitimacy, position on global warming, documented legal status, education, nationality, race, heritage, gender, sexual orientation, criminal record, degree of intelligence or common sense.

International Trust Your Government Week (ITYGW), fosters diversity, tolerance and general laissez-faire in the interests of World Peace. During this week, celebrants are urged to write to their government officials at all levels with the basic message: 

You’ve shown yourselves to be such collective bozos that we no longer care, so for one week we’ll take time out from worrying when you’re going to pull the trigger, push the button or take the ludicrous decision that will end humankind’s tenure on the planet, and we’ll simply turn our backs on you.

Hang on... how is that trust?

No longer listening, bozo. Too busy reading the week’s most appropriate release, Walt Pilcher’s EverybodyShrugged. 

A Horse's Teeth

November’s equestrian statistic is that a horse’s teeth all bunched up together are bigger than its brain.

What does Jack think about that?

He doesn’t waste time on thinking when there’s grass to be eaten.

Horse of a Different Colour 

The 93-E Contradiction

Today my first Sci-Fi book is published by Fantastic Books Publishing. I say "book" but it barely deserves the name, it's very short; a Sci-Fi short. The 93-E Contradiction.

I'm seeing it as an optimistic story, by the way. All this climate change stuff... don't worry for the planet. The planet will be fine. It won't have homo sapiens on it for much longer but hey, I guess we had a decent innings. A shame to scupper it all with a series of own goals but that - to push a mixed metaphor to its limit - is what our current circular firing squad of a human race is hell bent on doing.

And meanwhile, there are short sci-fi tales to lessen the pain.