I believe it would be quite remiss of me NOT to make some kind of intimation that the US Presidential Election took place and had an absolutely bloody brilliant result, don’t you? The US system of candidate nomination, primaries and the Grand Final, over what seems an inordinately long period of time, seems exceedingly odd [...]
/rant mode on Today’s rant is unusual as it’s not about the USA election, USAn attitudes on sex and education [lack thereof], creationists being morons, or sporting broadcasts. Today I’m frothing at the mouth about something that’s going on here in Australia, that the population is not getting upset enough about – but that’s the [...]
Warning: Rant Mode ON Okay so like just about everyone, I’ve been watching – only occasionally mind you – the Olympics coverage in Beijing and Hong Kong. I thought the pageantry and artistry of the opening and closing ceremonies was amazing, all that beauty and symbolism; the organisation, coordination et al of the Games was [...]
Howdy – hope everyone had a very merry and jolly and safe Yule season. I had a surprisingly pleasant Christmas and NYE – I say surprisingly because historically I get deeply depressed around that time. I hate the materialism and the media-driven expectations, all that crap. In fact, you could just go ahead and call [...]
Further to this previous post, I was somewhat horrified to learn that the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, and now Archbishop Barry Hickey of Perth, Western Australia, have both threatened, under papal order, that any (Catholic) Parliamentarian voting for, or any Catholic supporting the overturning of legislation regarding therapeutic cloning and stem cell research, [...]
I had a couple of other posts scheduled, but when I spotted this and my entire brain twisted itself into a little ball and exploded with supernova-like rage, I had to postpone them and have a wee rant instead. Translation: Jules totally lost her shit. (I’m not even going to start on the abortion issue [...]
Al Gore’s documentary (now Oscar-winning!) An Inconvenient Truth makes totally compelling viewing; it is difficult to quantify why, given it is “just” a movie of one man giving a slide show. However, with Gore’s passionate commitment to the issue of global warming, climate change, and the challenges and opportunities we face, as well as the [...]
I have long since decided that the entire neo-conservative group, with it’s fundie redneck reactionary ideas, is not only a cause for amusement; it’s fucking scary. If the religious right has it’s way we’ll be living back in pre-Renaissance times, complete with that century’s level of health care, treatment of women, rights of man (hey, [...]
One of the things I hate about blogs, bloggers and blogging are the so-called trolls; the sick fucks who make bloggers’ lives a misery. They’re the sad, small-minded, hate-filled types who leave comments telling the blogger how much they hate them (the blogger), what vile deluded people they are, what a sick life they leave, [...]
From The Internet Movie Database: Brokeback Mountain actress Michelle Williams has been disowned by her former school because of her role in the controversial gay cowboy romance. Williams, who attended exclusive Santa Fe Christian School in San Diego, California, has been blasted by the school’s headmaster as “offensive” for acting the long-suffering wife of a [...]
