You can’t talk about class without talking about class, it seems. Over at Troppo, Ken Parish, who should be familiar with the BB concept of the grenade lob, lobs one in comments: Read more »
You can’t talk about class without talking about class, it seems. Over at Troppo, Ken Parish, who should be familiar with the BB concept of the grenade lob, lobs one in comments: Read more »
Terms like “securitisation”, “derivatives”, “longitudinal diversification” and “dynamic hedging” would make most of our eyes glaze over, I suspect. Yet all this arcana is now having an impact on us - vie the subprime mortgage crisis and the shock waves it’s set off in the world economy. Read more »
Eye on Big Brother has been keeping a very close eye indeed on the confected narrative of “Corey Worthington (or Delaney) redeems himself as a house guest”, most recently looking at how this narrative has only been maintained with difficulty because of “Nanna” Terri refusing to play the role cast for her, and Bianca’s far too loud condemnation of Corey in his persona of “just an average seventeen year old kid”, and how their refusal o Read more »
There’s a really fascinating article at Wired about blogs and websites tracking down urban eccentrics. You know who I mean. Read more »
LP’s Indiana correspondent, QUT academic Terry Flew writes:
Bloomington, Indiana is where I am at the moment, at the University of Indiana. It is best known as the home of Albert Kinsey, John Cougar Mellencamp, and the ‘Hoosiers’, a basketball team about whom a film was made in 1986 starring Gene Hackman as a coach and Dennis Hopper as a drunk. Read more »
There have been a number of tragedies of late (e.g. the suicides in Bridgend) which supposedly featured the Internet in some capacity or another.
Of course, when such things happen people who didn’t grow up with the Internet put the blame on that relatively new medium for such tragedies.
While such views are misguided, it’s still worth wondering what the role of the Internet is in influencing the decisions made by the people concerned. Read more »
I’m just going to quote this post from Suzie at Echidne of the Snakes in full,complete with its links for Burma, and add a reminder for the women of China coping with the earthquake disaster of yesterday. Read more »
Back when I was alive and firmly ensconced in the 50s and 60s, times were much simpler and women knew their place.
Sadly in this modern times women want equal pay. At least Mark Wooden got it right the other day, if you want equality, then get off your lazy arses and work for it. Read more »
Image of the Prague skyline courtesy of Pavelm - licenced under Creative Commons. Read more »
I’m quite the fan of George Megalogenis’ journalism, for a number of reasons. Unlike too much of the instant analysis which passes for political commentary which almost always sticks to a singular press gallery script, Megalogenis has an eye both for longer term political trends, and a desire to connect psephological and political observation with social research. My caveat would be that his matching of census data with electorate level voting patterns is methodologically flawed in two ways. Read more »
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