It must have seemed a bright idea at the time to get Noel Pearson to write an article for The Monthly on Obama. Trouble is - Pearson may or may not know anything about American politics, but almost his entire article is a discussion of Obama seen through the prism of a book written by Shelby Steele. Read more »
Image of the Prague skyline courtesy of Pavelm - licenced under Creative Commons. Read more »
Just a quick plug - via the LP facebook group - for our friends at sQuareOne, who have a number of events coming up in Sydney targeted to people interested in independent publishing and freelance writing and blogging. Read more »
… than violent representations of women being murdered after being forced to have sex. Read more »
A Newspoll sample of Coalition voters has found the preferred Liberal leader to be… Peter Costello.
No doubt coincidentally, Newspoll conducted the survey over the weekend at the same time as Liberal backbenchers were leaking furiously to The Australian.
It also comes amid a backbench move to draft Mr Costello to return to the political spotlight, despite his refusal to stand for the leadership after Labor’s election victory in November. Read more »
This is the third in my irregular series of posts on science fiction and/or speculative fiction. Read more »
Our friends at Griffith Review are holding an event in Brisbane tomorrow at the State Library of Queensland from 1 to 4pm: Read more »
I suspect they’re dead and gone now as uni courses (cos’ Madonna is a very Gen X phenomenon), but one of the staples of the anti-pomo anti-cultural studies culture wars used to be claims that Universities were teaching subjects about the Detroit diva rather than, you know, Shakespeare. Read more »
Unlike the last entry with this title, this is (tangentially) a post about Roxy Music. Read more »
The Cowboys and Indians language of evildoers and other Manichean simplicities beloved of George W. Bush once upon a time might have been compared to the moral verities of comic book super heroes. Except that the most interesting of the classic comics were always the ones where ethical decisions were taken in a gray zone, or where “good” and “evil” weren’t so clearcut and easily distinguishable. Read more »
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