I have belatedly discovered Sage Francis and am enjoying the music I stole from him very much. A lot of the music I listen to (but far from all of it) is political. I guess I can related to it or something like that which is why I like it. So I [...]

I get a regular newsletter from Eric Lee at Labour Start who is a great campaigner and I recommend signing up for their newsletter. He has a particular interest in online campaigning and his thoughts on it are worth paying attention to. So I thought I’d share this amusing tale with you all:
“A [...]

An article on Graffiti which reeks of ‘uncool’: “Peter has never tried graffiti before. He’s an emcee and DJ, which, along with graffiti and Bboy (breakdancing), make up the four corners of hip-hop culture.”
“Four corners” or five elements?
I also though this was interesting (although completely unrelated to Gaffiti)

Here Come the Zapatistas

A couple of people have been discussing the issues around a female teach who was sack, seemingly quite innocently, after she admitted to being a Lesbian.
So I emailed these links to a gay friend of mine, purely because I thought he would be interested and the discussion that followed was a bit of an eye [...]

Apparently I might have Gout.
Isn’t that a ‘dad’ disease? I’m only 25!!

I find this funny.

I would like to pay tribute to Kobayashi, who broke the world record for hot dog (and bun) eating with a massive 50 1/2 hot dogs in just 12 minutes.
Respect!

“It is a long way from the federal-state co-operation that marked the birth of the GST: the (almost) comprehensive tax of 10 per cent on sales of most goods and services, introduced on July 1, 2000. In a rare act of self-sacrifice, the Howard Government bore the pain of raising a tax that would be [...]

Immigration, inflation and education/training all seem to be tightly linked at the moment and makes for some interesting analysis – which the blogsphere has proven pretty good at breaking down. See here, here and here.