It is very frightening that many, perhaps millions of people’s understanding of addiction has been grossly perverted by a fraudulent book that started its life as an overt work of fiction. So says my old mate Kev, over at Sufficient… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Apparently, laughing at them sometimes works
In response to me and everybody’s dog mocking them yesterday: No Brokeback blackoutJanuary 13, 2006 – 10:49AM Roadshow Films denies claims that it will not be releasing Brokeback Mountain in regional areas of Far North Queensland. Goodness me, mockery on… Read More ›
Pooftas, we don’t let our sons grow up to be Gayboys
“Maybe there are some (gay cowboys) out there but I’ve never heard of ’em,” he said. “I mean, it’s not a profession that attracts those sort of people.” So says Bob “mad as a” Katter, Federal MP for the Kennedy… Read More ›
BushCospeak = Doublespeak
Salman Rushdie succinctly skewers deceptive abuse of language: BEYOND any shadow of a doubt, the ugliest phrase to enter the English language last year was “extraordinary rendition”. To those of us who love words, this phrase’s brutalisation of meaning is… Read More ›
Seagullsicle! Pelican-bonbon! Albatross!
Coming soon to Harrods of Knightsbridge, get your bleedin’ seabird-flavoured memories of the People’s Princess and her doomed lover! ALBATROSS!! Di, Dodi and a huge honking bird. Mohammed al-Fayed is one hell of a tasteful dude. Hat tip to Limbic… Read More ›
We knew it was bad for you, see!?!
A sample of the headlines: Abortion increases stress: study Abortion increases mental health risk: study Abortion raises depression risk, say NZ researchers Abortion study backs pro-life debate Don’t you just love the way the MSM so baldly states its beat-up… Read More ›
You might well think that…
FX: beat – all together now: …but I couldn’t possibly comment! Yes! My family got me the complete Francis Urqhart trilogy on DVD for Xmas, also the Firth-Ehle Pride and Prejudice mini-series, and the 1st season of Black Books. Hugs… Read More ›
Is Vorkosigan as nasty as I love Lucy?
In a fascinating thread over at Pandagon riffing off a post by Twisty, the comments thread drifted away from Lucy to other fictinal characters, and of course we eventually ended up in SF (as all righteous geeks must regularly do),… Read More ›
Today is Blog against Racism Day
This was Chris Clarke’s idea, inspired by some debate about racism on his blog and the death of American civil rights activist Rosa Parks. It is 50 years since Mrs Parks took a stand(or rather, refused to) on a bus… Read More ›
The political spectrum through red-state glasses
There are some people who, despite possessing more than a little wit, are so focussed on the so-called left-right divide that they classify political blogs thusly: 2005 Bad Blog Awards Worst Right-wing BlogWorst Left-wing BlogWorst Center/Libertarian Blog WTF? There are… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 