Historicising the rectification of names
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/breslau-marktplatz.jpg" This post is a bit of a history of my holiday reading – which has all been what Norman Davies describes as big books of history, and all by historians who are conservative in one way or another [...]
…healthier and more productive…
An interesting piece in Spiked Online talks about the new “values” that we are teaching our children: Here, the authorities are trying to attach meaning to children’s everyday mundane activities; government targets are being pursued through activities such as children [...]
Christmas wars in hiatus, check back in 2007
We noticed here at LP that the Xmas Wars were pretty tame this year. But, don’t worry, according to the LA Times, they’ll be back!
Wanker of the day
Paul Gray. There has been hope among critics of ABC bias that the new director of editorial policies role, which attracts a salary of at least $280,000 a year, would redress fundamental concerns over ideological bias among ABC staff. But [...]
The great moving right show III
In the last of these posts on Rudd’s New Labor, I wrote that a trend was emerging. It’s now clear. Ruddian Labor is rebranding itself on the right. As today’s instalment (welfare reform) shows, this might be more about rebadging [...]
James Brown And That Confounded Bridge
Earlier today (while killing time a Sydney airport) I wrote a little, though very guitarcentric, appreciation of James Brown and his influence on music at R and R D. But for some reason, watching the glorious countryside of the NSW [...]
Sexual positioning; wherein one node of the hivemind disagrees with the hard left
I must confess myself totally gobsmacked by Jill Sparrow’s post at Leftwrites, sexual positions on the left (great title though…) and its comments thread. Writing, that is, as someone who’s spent a fair bit of effort deconstructing the tedious puritanism [...]
Anonymous Lefty In Exile
Anonymous Lefty, everyone’s favourite catblogger and lately loud and vocal proponent of all things Green, has had his blog hacked by some as-yet unidentified person. You can read the whole sorry tale at HackedLefty. Lefty, for the moment, is now [...]
Vale Gerry Ford
Via Tim Blair, news that Gerry Ford is dead. It’s a bit unfair to call him “the accidental president” as he was a power in the Republican Party’s congressional wing from the 60s onwards. There are a few interesting contemporary [...]
Bad ideas of 2006
I don’t think I’ve seen a better obituary for neoconservatism than this: Of course, the article cites neocons who hold true to the idea that neonconservatism will make a comeback, and considering the length of time that platform shoes have [...]
Just checking in
… to say I hope everyone survived and even enjoyed the Christmas festivities. I’m not planning to resume regular blogging til after new year, so I thought I’d also wish all our fabulous LP readers all the absolute best for [...]
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