Paternalism, thy name is Howard

by | Jun 25, 2007 | Uncategorized

I’ve been reluct­ant to com­ment on the Howard gov­ern­ment’s decision to “tackle” child abuse in remote indi­gen­ous com­munit­ies in the North­ern ter­rit­ory of Aus­tralia as I haven’t been there. Part of my hes­it­a­tion is that I do believe there is...

Kent Brockman as Edward R Murrow

by | May 23, 2007 | Uncategorized

Fox was brave enough to air this satire attack­ing Fox news in the Simpson’s 400th epis­ode. The link takes you to Think­Pro­gress’s ver­sion because it’s embed­ded on their page to play back… and it’s a worth­while place to send you rather than link­ing to...

by | May 20, 2007 | Uncategorized

So, David Hicks is back in Aus­tralia (I won’t use ‘home’ because the con­nota­tions of safety and com­fort do not apply to his con­tin­ued sol­it­ary con­fine­ment in a prison cell some­where in Adelaide). I find the word “free­dom” used to describe his...