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 »
This is the third in my irregular series of posts on science fiction and/or speculative fiction. Read more »
While everyone’s heard the jokes about the USA being the land of the monster truck, it’s not until you actually go there and wander round a shopping mall carpark that you appreciate just how gargantuan the average American family vehicle is. The typical American car isn’t a car at all, it’s a Ford F-150 SuperCrew, a 2500 kg behemoth. They’re terrible to drive, by all reports, and get about 13mpg - or, if you like, use 18 litres for every 100 kilometres driven. Read more »
I know that a some people have lost a lot of money through the collapse of Opes Prime, so it seems a bit ghoulish to be fascinated by it - but there you have it, I can’t help myself - I’m fascinated. There are so many interesting equitable and property law questions raised by it (tracing, equitable mortgages, mere equities, trusts in undifferentiated property), not to mention corporate governance issues. Some of my favourite topics! Read more »
There’s a thought provoking review of Richard Barbrook’s new book Imaginary Futures: From thinking machines to the Global village at Mute magazine. Read more »
Another dispatch from LP’s Indiana correspondent:
Aside from the Democrat primaries, the major talking point in the U.S. this week is whether the United States is losing ground in the global economy. This is different to the question of whether or not the U.S. economy is in recession (or ’slowdown’ as GWB prefers to put it), but is rather about whether the U.S. is losing the competitive race against the emergent economies of East Asia and the Middle East, and indeed to Europe. Read more »
Me again. This is cool too (yes it is pro-Barrack):
I know that some people have lost a lot of money through the collapse of Opes Prime, so it seems a bit ghoulish to be fascinated by it - but there you have it, I can’t help myself - I’m fascinated. There are so many interesting equitable and property law questions raised by it (tracing, equitable mortgages, mere equities, trusts in undifferentiated property), not to mention corporate governance issues. Some of my favourite topics! Read more »
I haven’t finished watching tonight’s Four Corners, which I taped so I could watch Big Brother (don’t worry, I’ve already condemned myself) and Good News Week, but it struck me as being somewhat more of an interesting take than I’d anticipated. Read more »
I haven’t been too impressed with ethanol fuels for a while. My concern back then was “that if governments make emotional knee-jerk reactions, the cure may be as bad as the disease it is designed to alleviate.” Read more »
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