Straight-up racist that sucker was simple and plain, Motherf**k him and John Wayne.* Chuck D’s immortal rhyme more or less sums up my attitude towards Martin Heidegger in my more polemical moments. Heidegger was a Nazi. Whilst countless others of his generation fled, spoke out and resisted, he happily worked away under the regime. This [...]
Massachusetts was not won by the Republicans, it was lost by Obama Yesterday’s big news from the far side of the Atlantic was the loss of one of the safest Democratic seats to Scott Brown, a man who represents possibly everything that should make us very worried about the Republicans. In Ted Kennedy’s former seat, [...]
Guest post by Carl Packman While Sarkozy in France has realised that the burqa ban will be harder to enforce than originally believed – and so, therefore, will be shelved – another group of angry right wing men (and women), this time in Britain, have decided the issue is for them, namely UKIP, and for [...]
Like most people I like to think of myself as more complicated than one particular social, philosophical or political theory can pigeonhole. I am full of contradictions and exceptions. As Chris Rock said: “I got some shit I’m conservative about, I got some shit I’m liberal about. Crime – I’m conservative. Prostitution – I’m liberal.” [...]
Só pra esclarecer: Brasil não tem nada de vítima; tem é culpa e uma grande responsabilidade por estra tragédia!! Exprtou o modelo de repressão carioca pro Haiti e deu nisso: se não tivesse terremoto, talvez tivessemos 100mil mortos de qq jeito, mortos pela MINUSTAH, ou que sabe, 100mil mulheres haitianas estupradas pelos “salvadores” brasileiros… That [...]
Today’s Guardian seemed very keen that we be morally outraged that wealthy tourists are visiting earthquake-stricken Haiti in cruise ships. The precise justification for this disgust, however, isn’t really very clear. I’m happy to concede that one thing highlighted in the story – the fact that the Labadee resort where the Independence of the Seas [...]
It is rather a shock that they managed to spend $400m on a film without anyone in Hollywood saying, “erm, guys, I think this is a bit racist.” In fact so much of a shock that since the release of Avatar in late December, blogging and reviewing communities have time and time again criticised the [...]
Gordon Brown: Labour is the party of the middle classes. Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
It should come as little surprise to hear that Ricky Gervais has quit Twitter after just one month and six tweets. After all, it would be hard to imagine the self-confessed (and not wholly undeserving) egotist getting everything he wants to say about himself down in 140 cringe-worthy characters. Of course, one of his characters [...]
People are in a frenzy, and understandably. It appears that the Independent is soon to be taken over by russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev and his favoured candidate for the editors chair is Rod Liddle – a particularly vile specimin of humanity. So far I have not joined the thousands in the facebook group threatening a [...]
