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I don't what part about this midterm election ad to object to first.

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And to those commentators who say that it isn't racist, and is actually all about America, and not really about China, I point you to this blog post:
The ad says a lot by only saying a little. Most of the communication is image; and the sinister background music, that to ( Read more... )

I'm at Hongqiao airport waiting for a flight to Tianjin that has been delayed because of "technical difficulties", and Melissa just txted me the news: Australia will have a Labor minority government, and Julia Gillard will remain Prime Minister ( Read more... )

Finally deleted my Slate rss feed today because all the Hillary-bashing at that site was FOULING UP MY MOOD every time I read my f-list. YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN WRITING HER OFF FOR MONTHS. STFU ALREADY.

Also: GIP.

"One of the most tragic things that happened yesterday, a beautiful day, was that I was talking to woman who said that she wouldn't want to be me for anything in the world. She wouldn't want to live today and look ahead to what it is she sees because she's afraid. Fear is always with us but we just don't have time for it. Not now."Hillary D. Rodham ( Read more... )

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I had just been sleeping, f-list, but you have no excuse. Why has nobody mentioned that Al Gore has just won the NOBEL BLOODY PEACE PRIZE? The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) took the other half of the award ( Read more... )

I am not calm any longer. I am tired and angry, I want to start a revolution, I want to rip the world apart with these hands.

But I am also young and foolish. So I defer to the voices of wiser and far more articulate persons.

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Excerpts from Harold Pinter's acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, 7 December 2005. Cross posted to incandesco ( Read more... )

I picked up today at Dymocks a book I heard about from Guardian Unlimited a few months ago -- "Authors Take Sides on Iraq and the Gulf War ( Read more... )

The PM's finally announced a date for the federal electon (October 9) and I've realised with rather a rude shock that I still haven't yet enrolled to vote. When the representatives from the Australian Electoral Commission came around to school with the enrollment forms end of last year, I mustn't have filled it in - I think it was because I needed ( Read more... )

Dae posted this link on her blog. It's a cartoon about Bush and Kerry. Go watch for vaudeville parody goodness: "From the liberal weeeeeeners to the right wing nuuuut jobs, this land belooongs, this land belong to you and me."