Entries Tagged as 'society'

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

We decide who… blah blah blah

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Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Ad campaigns

People gen­er­ally have a strong ambi­val­ence to advert­ising, but now and then there are a few gems. The National Quit Smoking cam­paign has always used the tac­tic of scar­ing the bejee­sus out of people to get them to quick, and it’s really out­shone itself again with its latest ads. Gan­gren­ous feet that need to be severed, rot­ting teeth […]

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

's first book review">Dan's first book review

(or my second if you include this ver­it­able rant) Being the on-the-pulse polit­ical junkie that I am, I bought The Longest Dec­ade by George Mega­lo­genis. The book is split into 15 pas­tiches that Mega­lo­genis (I’m gonna call him GM from now on) calls “snap­shots”. You’d think that would be one snap­shot for each year of the “decade”, […]

Friday, April 14th, 2006

're all basically the same">Try one of the other religions, they're all basically the same

As usual, Jensen is full of shit poo Table for Three divx Texas Rangers rip La sin­drome di Stend­hal film As I see it, Islam and Chris­tian­ity (and most other reli­gions) are Dog Watch trailer Bolt Live Free or Die Hard video the same, fun­da­ment­ally. They all teach sub­ser­vi­ence to an unseen author­ity fig­ure. They are about […]

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Brain farts

The Lib­eral party has since 1996 pur­sued a strategy of win­ning outer-suburban city seats, par­tic­u­larly in Sydney (the so-called “Howard bat­tlers”, which don’t exist, see here down­load Bill Bailey: Part Troll ), by run­ning par­tic­u­larly dim-witted can­did­ates, with a tend­ency to not fil­ter the con­tents of their brains from their vocal chords. It’s been dis­turb­ingly suc­cess­ful, with […]