2005 Archives You'll see in the archives section above that 2005 is missing. That's some glitch that will hopefully rectify itself eventually. But in the meantime if you want to find my posts from this period they are below:
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This bizarre event has some spooky similarities to the case of Fairlie Arrow down here in Oz. See this page for a pithy description of what happened. (It's the entry called "Fairlie does Queensland".)
Just saw that a reader had come by way of the Google search Camille+Paglia+crazy.
I'm pretty disappointed that "crazy" was associated with such a wonderfully intelligent and gutsy woman. The search turned up this page also.
The entry reads, in part:
Camille Paglia: A really crazy bitch who is a lesbian and a postmodern anti-feminist.
It's about as inaccurate a description of Paglia as you can get. She is definitely neither crazy nor post-modernist. Slamming po-mo plonkers is one of her favourite pursuits. Perhaps she is an anti-feminist, if by feminism you mean the infantile victim-mania of today's twisted sisters.
The chick rocks. If ony there were more like her - particularly down here in Australia.
Here's an intriguing but dippy article by Julia Baird about libertarian legend Camille Paglia. Paglia, who has an awesome knowledge of art and history, says that the right is dominating everything in the US including art, citing Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ as an example.
The piece concludes:
What does the left have, Paglia asked, "that can rival the Bible?".
"I prophesy to you that religion will gain and gain until the left comes to its senses and reclaims art."
Curious thought, that it might take poetry to break, blow, burn and make even the Democrats and the Australian Labor Party new. It is at first glance obscure, but still, somehow, a wonderful idea.
Maybe, living in this broad land, we should have a head start.
What, so some bong-suckling plonker who can't write for shit is going to get Beazley to the Lodge?
Sheesh. These pinkos still don't get it, do they?
Lefties (or more specifically, politically correct Stalinists) have completely destroyed art in Oz by confining it within their grim pin-hearted templates.
How can they reclaim something they still completely dominate? And how can they revive something they've strangled to death?
The situation is so bad it's just irreversible, I reckon. Artsville is like the Soviet Union just before it carked completely - and for much the same reason. It is rotten through.
I posted earlier about how Tony Abbott riles pro-abortion absolutists by possessing a spine and walking his talk. He also seems to have riled someone claiming to be a satirist.
Here's an article about the push for greater freedom to off babies in already euthenasia-happy Holland
While in some cases killing a severely deformed bub may seem at first to be an act of kindness (or at least non-cruelty) I agree with this writer's argument that there is a "slippery slope" at play here.
It's very similar to the Terri Schiavo case. That is, if you take the feeding tube from her, then who cops it next?
The term "persistent vegetative state" could easily describe many people, including this well known dolt (photographed after his nanny just wiped the dribble from his lips).
Why not euthenase him (and his ferndie followers while you're at it)? Would be a great relief to many in this country - not to mention an excellent way to stop a major drain on the public purse ...
Have just been blog-hopping and found this post about how fluffs are so often ignorant about the very issues they feel so strongly about.
I've seen this syndrome in action many times. They do tend to squawk first and ask questions later.
Why is that? Well, I think it's got to do with the fact that fluffs are naturally intellectually lazy (and commensurately emotionally vigorous) and deeply resent having to do a bit of research into things. I mean, why spend time reading on your own when you could be out shrieking with your mates?
Also, taking very clear-cut stances on major issues like abortion is a very fast and easy way of locating allies. So it's a kind of tribe-finding mechanism, too.
So "Hanoi Jane" Fonda has hit the headlines again with an admission that her ridiculous posturing all those years ago was ill-considered. And she sauces up the story with a confession about sexual shenanigans with her ex-hubby and some hookers.
Who gives a tinker's! Fonda is way past it. Now, she's almost old enough to play the Hepburn role in a remake of On Golden Pond.
I'm amazed that anything the ol' slapper says is even deemed newsorthy. She's just a superannuated flashbulb addict desperately trying to get any remaining limelight she can.
Looks like the kind of barbarism that's been going on in Iraq is exploding in another part of the world. In Rio, a bunch of corrupt cops went on a random killing spree (including a beheading) as a response to a crackdown.
It's truly horrific. Always amazes me what humans are capable of when the constraints of civilization are pulled away.