Posted in amerika, belief, christianity, cliques, enmity, establishment, friends, geography, here, location, love, metaphor, organisations, people, politics, pragmatism, race, responsibility, society, understanding on June 1st, 2010 1 Comment »
My country has no flag. Its has no national anthem, although some of its citizens are partial to folk music and Morris dancing. No seething, populous crowds cheer my country on, with loud or incoherent cries in the street. Its citizens do not rally round meaningless symbols and engineer fake outrage at nonexistent bans, nor [...]
Posted in art, charity, climate, cliques, dickheads, enmity, entertainment, environment, establishment, humour, location, media, opinion, patriarchy, race, radio, rants, society on November 25th, 2008 4 Comments »
Yesterday, Sir Henry Woburn managed a wonderful juxtaposition on his early-morning Tory Funtime Hour. Shortly before 8am, he made a risky-for-the-BBC if banal racist joke about the Japanese—yes, he used the word “rubbery” at around 21.5 minutes—and followed that after the news with a complaint about the government introducing a new top rate of income [...]
Posted in amerika, belief, cliques, election, lies, people, politics, race, responsibility, society, understanding on November 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
monkeyhands wonders whether first-time voters couldn’t have made it to the booths a bit sooner:
Waiting for the perfect presidential candidate before you deign to cast a vote is like waiting for your parents to stop being homophobic before you tell them you’re gay. It’s giving yourself an excuse not to act, an excuse not to [...]
Posted in art, belief, blogs, cliques, criticism, far_right, humour, journalism, lies, media, nu-media, politics, race, society, understanding on August 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
Anton Vowl discusses cryptoracists, and the preferred mode of transport of the people who oppress their common-sense opinions:
Which brings me to the other kind of racist, who is much more loathsome. This kind of racist doesn’t admit he’s racist. He thinks he’s not racist; he thinks he’s just trying to talk about matters in a [...]
This weekend I went to see my parents. Life has always been hairy around my dad, not least because until recently he’s been fairly hairy anyway. But he’s one of those old-old Labour types who lapse into quasi-Tory authoritarian Tebbitness far too often, and go on about people who aren’t white because he had such [...]
Posted in class_warfare, cliques, media, people, privacy, race, society, surveillance, technology, television on January 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
You all know the arguments against Big Brother. You all know the arguments in favour of Big Brother. I won’t patronise you by rehearsing them here, each with its own bullet point.
Of more interest is the tone that airing these arguments seems to attract to a debate. Listening on the news to some bumbling MP [...]
