History repeats itself. First as tragedy. And then as monetised stupidity. There were fewer anti-mask wingnuts around during the Spanish Flu of 1918, perhaps because the bug stacked up 50 000 000 infected corpses in pretty short order, but there were still enough militantly witless dummies around to protest the intolerable imposition of compulsory mask wearing.
Reading Alien Side boob is a highlight of the week and that's not just because I am lockdown in plague town and can't go out. The rapid-fire pithy quotables "Alan Jones’ white power hour on Sky News After Dark" "the Book of Face which is now the world’s premium introduction agency for tinfoil moonbats, wine mom extremists, and actual Nazis" and my favorite "The correct answer was not just No, but FUCK NO!" I can't understand why the team at the Brisbane Times wanted the lawyers to review your razor sharp aphorisms before publishing your Blunt Instrument columns.
Sometime ago I used the term Viral Ignorance in one of my books to describe how dumb ideas can spread through parliament, but of course, viral ignorance spreads everywhere. It’s really fucking depressing!
Thank you so much for the revelations of Adam CREIGHTON - whom I saw for the first time around three weeks ago on The Drum - spouting the most weird nonsense on what was otherwise a panel of experts - much along the lines you have him caught mouthing with Alan Jones of the pastel-coloured jackets. The Drum is usually pretty good - only the occasional politician and generally not too ideological - though they did have that "teddibly-twee" Downer woman on the "pwogwam" once - I had to write and point out the kind of person they were providing with oxygen - First Dog On The Moon had devoted an entire cartoon to the "nation-building" Downer family - and the dreadful things Alexander D's grand-father had got up in the latter 19th century in the North (massacres on his watch and murderers defended) - during his times as SA Attorney-General and Premier - while Alexander pleaded for voters to give Georgina a go when she stood for the "old seat" in South Australia - of course the IPA then took her on when the voters did NOT support her - and Alexander pulled his head in for a while. But Adam Creighton - Murdoch's man - how did he get on to The Drum. Let's hope he is never again invited back!
Reading Alien Side boob is a highlight of the week and that's not just because I am lockdown in plague town and can't go out. The rapid-fire pithy quotables "Alan Jones’ white power hour on Sky News After Dark" "the Book of Face which is now the world’s premium introduction agency for tinfoil moonbats, wine mom extremists, and actual Nazis" and my favorite "The correct answer was not just No, but FUCK NO!" I can't understand why the team at the Brisbane Times wanted the lawyers to review your razor sharp aphorisms before publishing your Blunt Instrument columns.
Sometime ago I used the term Viral Ignorance in one of my books to describe how dumb ideas can spread through parliament, but of course, viral ignorance spreads everywhere. It’s really fucking depressing!
Thank you so much for the revelations of Adam CREIGHTON - whom I saw for the first time around three weeks ago on The Drum - spouting the most weird nonsense on what was otherwise a panel of experts - much along the lines you have him caught mouthing with Alan Jones of the pastel-coloured jackets. The Drum is usually pretty good - only the occasional politician and generally not too ideological - though they did have that "teddibly-twee" Downer woman on the "pwogwam" once - I had to write and point out the kind of person they were providing with oxygen - First Dog On The Moon had devoted an entire cartoon to the "nation-building" Downer family - and the dreadful things Alexander D's grand-father had got up in the latter 19th century in the North (massacres on his watch and murderers defended) - during his times as SA Attorney-General and Premier - while Alexander pleaded for voters to give Georgina a go when she stood for the "old seat" in South Australia - of course the IPA then took her on when the voters did NOT support her - and Alexander pulled his head in for a while. But Adam Creighton - Murdoch's man - how did he get on to The Drum. Let's hope he is never again invited back!