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 ›
Sociology
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Shame
I haven’t been able to marshal my thoughts especially coherently regarding the racially motivated riots in Cronulla. Without some beatup by the media and indiscriminate text message forwarding, this would have just been another gang-fight at Cronulla, not much different… Read More ›
Australia has broken ranks with the US
…even if it’s only regarding the Kyoto Protocol rather than Iraq. Subeditors predictably give us: Aust leaves US in the cold at climate talks I’m astonished that our Prime Bootlicker has allowed our representatives to stop fawning over Karl Rove’s… 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 ›
Intelligent? Really?
Designing men and women by Adam Ferber at Fanatical Apathy. I think I’m one of many natural skeptics who came up with the idea of our universe as a long-forgotten school science experiment long before the Simpsons episode or reading… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 