Staring At Goats...

Jon Ronson is a very funny journalist, writer and documentary-maker and I read his book Them: Adventures With Extremists earlier this year. This chronicles Ronson meeting various fundamentalists and conspiracy theorists around the world and it’s both funny and frightening as he travels around the world poking the underbelly of various right-wing loonies and other nutjobs.

I’ve recently just finished reading his other book, The Men Who Stare At Goats, and this is also pretty fabulous. It chronicles the US military’s attempts to harness psychic powers and other types of extra-sensory capabilities to compliment its arsenal of more traditional weapons. It also ends with a lot of these people who were first brought into the US military in the 1970s and 1980s being reactivated for use in the War on Terror.

The obvious weapon the US military have failed to utilise so far, though, is Donald Trump’s hair. This must surely count as a paranormal phenomena and could probably hypnotise and stun a cell of terrorists by its appearance alone.

The Trumpster’s hair was back on telly last night in The Apprentice US and the fellas team actually lost to the bicker-tastic backbiting women and dim John was booted out.

The blokes were, of course, onto a loser as soon as the task was announced as it focused on launching a new line in women’s clothes and they clearly had no idea what they were looking for or at half of the time. Well, apart from the models who they invited down to measure their vital statistics when they should have been concentrating on the job in hand. Blokes. Love ’em...

I also must correct an earlier blog entry, too. In my diatribe against Rock Around the Block I stated that it was a Sunday morning show on ITV 1. But I have since learnt it is actually a prime-time show on Saturday evening which is repeated on Sunday. As far as I’m concerned this makes the imminent demise of ITV in an even more advanced state than I feared. Expect Massacre! A Musical About Somalia or Famine: The Game Show very soon...