Wednesday 1 June 2011

It is impossible to overdo luxury.......

"It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming"
 Garrison Keillor
 From the Guardian (and do read it all!):
"The office of José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European commission, racked up a €249,000 bill for private jets during the same period he attended the 2009 UN convention on climate change."
Well JMB, you, together with your past and present colleagues, had better leave your windows open 'cause we're coming............!

3 comments:

A K Haart said...

Do you sometime find you loathe these people so much you need to make a cup of strong coffee and come back later? I do.

WitteringsfromWitney said...

AKH: Unfortunately coffee, or in my case tea - nor a stiff drink - removes my wish to attach this lot to a lamp post!

WitteringsfromWitney said...

AKH: Unfortunately coffee, or in my case tea - nor a stiff drink - removes my wish to attach this lot to a lamp post!