The Icelandic consumer and taxpayer has little to shout about after both realized and intended privatization of important institutions and entities. I ask you to ponder deeply the objectives of  privatization. The “releasing of capital” from imaginary shackles as described by conservatives has without fail lead to higher bills and lower quality of service for [...]

I heard a good story this weekend. It was about my personal finances. The story told of how I’d been gambling around with money in the good times and lost it all in the economic collapse. Therefore I am supposed to be bitter and therefore I am supposed to be keeping this site going, going [...]

The premier demand upon all education is that Auschwitz not happen again. Its priority before any other requirement is such that I believe I need not and should not justify it. I cannot understand why it has been given so little concern until now. To justify it would be monstrous in the face of the [...]

If anyone missed me updating the site in the last few days then rejoice. I am back. No, I wasn’t seeking spiritual enlightenment with the Dalai Lama who visited Iceland this week. I have just been too busy. Apart from having a crammed schedule, I have also realized that once in a while it is [...]

Health Minister Ogmundur Jonasson probably thinks he is being all noble when not accepting the extra wages that come with being a minister on top of the MP wages he already gets. It is possible that he justifies this to himself that this way he is setting an example for others in society, especially those [...]

The state(which is the people) is in debt because it owes money to someone abroad so it taxes the people(who are the state) to get more money to pay the debt. So is this how a minus and a minus are supposed to make a plus? The world really makes no sense.  That is all [...]

The Independence Party celebrates its 80th birthday this year. I would say happy birthday but I really wouldn’t mean it so I won’t. I have voted for the party in one election to the parliament and one election for the city council. I will never vote for the party again. Why did I vote for [...]

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. – Dorothy Thompson In the past few months I’ve talked to two persons who are facing a dilemma that they did not expect to face a year ago. They both have detailed [...]

  It would be a welcome change if our leaders could man up to rebuild with a long-term, outward focus. Where the well-being of all citizens on the planet is considered, instead of short-term profits and an anarchic idea of making Iceland into a financial center, i.e. what Kaupthing boss Sigurdur Einarsson was asked to [...]

I went to see the new Star Trek movie on Saturday. It was very good and succeeded in making you think about what the future holds.  Then I was sitting in a British Airways flight waiting to take off from London Gatwick airport and I beheld this sight on the picture on the left that [...]