Corporations are people too my Friend...

 

 This is  my response to the now infamous statement that U.S. Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made a couple of months ago "corporation are people".

I'm not sure that anyone is quite sure what he meant by that. I think the gist of what he was getting at was that it doesn't matter that a billionaire with a high stake in a corporation only has to pay 15% on their capital gains tax(which is the money they make from basically doing nothing)  while the average family pays more than  double that amount because "there people too". So therefore, the money goes straight to "the people". Or maybe the corporation give it straight back to the people?

No. Even after writing all this down, I still don't get it.

Here's the footage below in case you want to try and make sense of it.
Corporation are People

With everybody currently clammering to say the most meaningful thing about the late great Steve Jobs, I thought I'd just include this illustration I'd done of him and also just provide a quote by Stephen Fry who would always put it in a far more articulate manner than I ever could...

"Henry Ford didn’t invent the motor car, Rockefeller didn’t discover how to crack crude oil into petrol, Disney didn’t invent animation, the Macdonald brothers didn’t invent the hamburger, Martin Luther King didn’t invent oratory, neither Jane Austen, Tolstoy nor Flaubert invented the novel and D. W. Griffith, the Warner Brothers, Irving Thalberg and Steven Spielberg didn’t invent film-making. Steve Jobs didn’t invent computers and he didn’t invent packet switching or the mouse. But he saw that there were no limits to the power that creative combinations of technology and design could accomplish."

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Hugh Laurie

Hugh Laurie, originally uploaded by World of Gopher.

After the Murdoch bashing in my last post I decided to try and offer something a little more likeable.

One of the heroes of my youth 'John Squire' once stated that it was never enough to just point out all the things that you don't like about your environment. If you want to paint an accurate and insightful picture of who you are then you must also embrace what you do like.

I agree.

Still, why I should think that anyone should care who I am or what I stand for is anybody's guess.

I am a supporter of Hugh Laurie.
All round good guy! At least, it's nice to think that he is.

He has won many awards in his time as an entertainer but perhaps one of his more surprising bit of recognition was his GQ award for "Musician of the Year", which was presented to by his one time university buddy and long time partner in comedy 'Stephen Fry'.

Upon giving him the award, Fry commented that his friend Hugh had always had a natural ability for music but more importantly, he had a natural love of it.

I've heard that a lot recently. The idea that enthusiasm and love of a vocation is very often more important that natural ability.

I find that reassuring.

Rupert takes to the ropes...

Rupert takes to the ropes..., originally uploaded by World of Gopher.

This guy , his son and his now defunct newspaper "News of the World" have been in the headlines a lot due to a phone hacking scandal in the UK which continues to threaten to spread overseas to the grand old U.S of A.

Not his biggest fan but thought he had an interesting face to draw.

It's important to remain impartial at all times when illustrating these characters. every responsible illustrator knows that.

Still, He does have a kind of weather beaten look about him which I can only assume is due to him having a rough night after collapsing in the street due to a sudden attack of Botulism poisoning which would have clearly led him to have to crawl around in a back alley while racked with fits of projectile vomiting, grabbed by vicious cops and whipped on the shins with night sticks, then locked in the a drunken cell of the local jail where he was abused all night by intoxicated wino's.

Shame.



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