WINSTON CHURCHILL’S “PROBLEMATIC PAST” – “The Independent” is here to remind us all about it: You can read the whole piece here. As Raw writes, […]
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GET YOUR PUSSY OFF HARRIET TAUBMAN! – Someone, who might or might not know any history, thought it was a good idea, presumably because Taubman […]
Continue reading »SAVAGE BERNARDI – Musicians get quite touchy about their music. It is their baby after all, and who wants their baby touched by a filthy right-wing hand? […]
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The Dream – then and now
Martin Luther King Jr’s character and life offer a stark illustration that only a few saints and monsters walk the Earth amongst the humans, and […]
Continue reading »DON’T BE EVIL (I.E. DON’T BE A CONSERVATIVE) – Google might have dropped its famous corporate motto two years ago, replacing it with “Do the […]
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Anti-FaComIS
Yesterday, on my morning walk through my quiet and semi-leafy neighbourhood of Wooloowin, in the outer inner north of Brisbane, Australia, I was confronted by […]
Continue reading »HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU – Trump’s full statement regarding Steve Bannon quotes in “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael […]
Continue reading »NET NEUTRALITY – Another reminder that “net” is never neutral: Twitter began a massive purge of users on Monday the company claims violate its new […]
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Shooting the messenger, ignoring the message
It’s been a week now since Donald Trump retweeted three tweets by a British nationalist leader Jayda Fransen and the world is still in the […]
Continue reading »MILO WITH PEPPER – I don’t care much for Milo, and never did, not having found him particularly funny or clever. The left hates him […]
Continue reading »WHY PEOPLE HATE THE MEDIA, PART 628 – Yesterday, “Newsweek” gave us an insight into how Charles Manson and Donald Trump both “used language to gain […]
Continue reading »SWIPE RIGHT FOR SARAYA – I’ve seen a lot on Tinder, most of it predictable, including all the spam accounts, bots pushing other apps, prostitutes, […]
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Religious protection? Why not political one?
Now that the same-sex marriage will soon be legal in Australia, the only unresolved legislative question remains is the extent of the “protection” provided to […]
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Happy birthday Poland!
The eleventh of the eleventh does not only mark the end of the First World War – and thus associated holidays like Remembrance Day in […]
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I tried to write a happy blog…
I really did. As God is my witness. After all, I’m the guy who had his 15 minutes (or 15 months in my case) of […]
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Right wing security tax
This is outrageous: University students are being told they will have to pay to hire security guards if they want to run events spruiking conservative ideals […]
Continue reading »THE MOST DEPRESSING OPINION POLL OF THE YEAR – A year after his surprise election victory, President Donald Trump is underperforming expectations and lagging behind his predecessors, […]
Continue reading »“COLOR YOUR OWN BERNIE SANDERS HERO” AND OTHER RUSSIAN ELECTION HACKS – The US House Intelligence Committee (almost an oxymoron there) has released some of […]
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One hundred years of double standards: why communism still gets better press than Nazism
This month, we remember the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik coup d’etat, popularly misnamed the Russian Revolution (the real Russian revolution, abolishing the monarchy and […]
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The “far right” Thatcher fan
She is a lesbian politician (with a Swiss Sri Lankan partner) who wants to attract more women to support her, and she idolises Margaret Thatcher, […]
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