History Wars Continued and Continued
Gerard Henderson never gives up. The perpetual History Wars roll on, with this week’s entry being a spray about the alleged support of the Left for communism in Vietnam and Cambodia, accompanied by the usual conspicuous indignation tactic of demanding [...]
Whatever happened to Hitchens?
In case you’ve been wondering, here’s the headsup [via Tim D.] I used to really enjoy Hitchens’ acerbic and witty writing – but he’s descended into a sad self-parody. And lest I be accused of disliking him now that he’s [...]
Lesbian Chic, LA Style
After recent discussion here at LP about sexuality and stereotyping in tv, I’m interested to see Rob Corr has a good post on an spray about The L Word. Incidentally, can anyone think of an Australian tv series with a [...]
More Junk Corporate Science
Looks like the “research” claiming that texting and emailing reduced iq was commissioned by and spun for HP in an attempt to sell stuff. [Phew, I'm relieved - back to my emails now]. Anyone surprised?
What's The Matter with Government?
Last year, in the wake of the US election, the blogosphere spent much energy debating Thomas Frank’s thesis that working class Republicans voted against their economic interests: Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter with Kansas?, noted in the April [...]
Just Say No, Kids
More on the failure of abstinence based sex education in the States – the Village Voice reports: a study published in the journal Pediatrics found that 20 percent of ninth-graders surveyed had engaged in oral sex and 14 percent had [...]
"I Want to Simplify My Life"
Paris is burning.
Anglo-Celtic Dreaming?
There’s been some discussion of my reference to Anglo-Celts on my previous post about sectarianism and history where I wrote: One of the great right-wing myths is that Australia was some sort of Anglo-Celtic homogenous country prior to Calwell’s post-war [...]
Cat People vs. Rotweilers
Perhaps I was too hasty in identifying cultural sectarianism as the cause of the unreasonable level of vitriol generated by the election of Pope Benedict. Maybe it’s the age old dog person vs. cat person thing: “Oh, cats,” she said. [...]
Banana Republicanism?
Brian Costar makes an excellent point about the blogosphere’s new hot topic, Joh, in The Age today: Under Bjelke-Petersen Queensland seemed like a separate nation. The “Queensland is different” mantra became the accepted wisdom.Yet Bjelke-Petersen was more than just the [...]
We Shall Overcome!
Republican Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist, is continuing his campaign to entrench the new American theocracy by threatening the “nuclear option” to change Senate rules to prevent filibusters. Presently, the Senate enjoys the privilege of unlimited debate, and “cloture” can [...]
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