The vindication of women

One of the few good things about Bush’s State of the Union speech was hear­ing him say “Madam Speaker”, watch­ing the look on Pelosi’s face as he said it and of course, seeing the stand­ing ova­tion that fol­lowed it. And recently, with her little “I’m in’ video, the...

Violence begets violence…

…or “fight­ing for peace is like fuck­ing for vir­gin­ity” as the old graf­fiti used to say. I am so dis­heartened by the events of Sat­urday and the sub­sequent over-reac­tion by police that I barely know where to start. First of all, there was my...

Carnivale beyond capitalism

It was recently brought to my atten­tion that I may not have pro­moted a cer­tain car­ni­val so that people knew what it was all about. Join me for a car­ni­val beyond cap­it­al­ism in response to the G20’s pres­ence in Melbourne. Con­trary to cop...

Speculation…

Chat­ting to hasimir at pixiewitch7’s party the other week, he noted that if the Demo­crats got the US House and then they impeached both Bush and Cheney, the Speaker of the House would be Pres­id­ent. (Thank you, West Wing, for teach­ing us everything we know about...