Snark Victory
Permanently dyspeptic academic Professor Bunyip has stumbled upon an Australian perspective in the Hong Kong-based Asia Times which leaves Alison Broinowski's thesis - about Asians...
Set Them Free Why Doncha Babe?
My good friend Paul has very kindly forwarded me Malcolm Fraser's online petition seeking the release of kids from illegal entry-associated confinement. As Tim Dunlop...
Land of the Inka Gods
G ´day from Cusco in Peru, I write these words breathless from the high altitude and the grandeur of the Inca empire. Contrary to what...
Goodness Me…..
London's Daily Torygraph editorialises favourably on why gay couples should have equality under law. It's an eminently sensible - and very well-written - casebuild.
The Unbearable Heaviness of Serious Novels?
Wendy James recently posted a piece called "Shlock Horror!", about best-selling horror novelist Stephen King's being awarded a lifetime literary achievement award. By coincidence or...
Just wonderin’
The Kennedy assassination bores me to tears. So, while I should be studying, I am instead reading some of the various assassination-related articles on wikipedia....
Bertha Vanation
....is of course the name of an American drag queen in the ubermawkish Hollywood weepie, Torch Song Trilogy. It was only a matter of time...