Posts by Joe Wylie
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"So, the fact that Gov. Palin is deeply religious, that’s a good thing," Obama said.
Twenty years ago politicos as diverse as Margaret Thatcher and David Lange were described as being "deeply religious". This came across as a kind of coded mediaspeak for 'don't ask cos it's nobody's business but theirs'. While it sometimes seemed a handy flag of convenience, Lange, for example, never pimped his kids beyond portraying himself (in his pre-Margaret Pope days) as a down-to-earth bloke who liked nothing better than a family lunch at Georgie Pie. And I don't recall Thatcher ever dropping hints about how she'd like to institute a theocracy.
Obama's right - shove it back, down deep, where it belongs, and leave it there. If an Obama presidency delivers nothing more than putting paid to the Karl Rove-manipulated machination of the relious right then it'd be, in every sense, a good thing. -
Whitlam: "That was a good speech. You should go back comrade, and get yourself an honours degree."
Keating: "What for ? Then I'd be like you."
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I agree almost entirely with the latter (except for the whole God exists business) and not at all with the former.
To which Sarah Palin would likely say (when she's out of mike range), wottha fuggid Juneau.
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Irony does not really come across well on this internet thingy does it?
Ah yes, the burden of the truly gifted when preaching to the crass and unsubtle 'you lot' that haunt these threads. For us shape-shifting reptilans, though. irony can be quantified to the nearest nanoIcke.
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ou sound very uncomfortable SageNZ.
Nappy rash.
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Craig - half of those dead presidents were assassinated.
A point which, for anyone with a concentration span greater than that of a mosquito with Alzheimers, Craig had already made perfectly clear. Seriously Sagie, you got basic comprehension issues.
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link for above Palin vs Obama
Redstate.com, where Palin is descibed as "__Smoking__ hot in a "naughty librarian" sort of way". That's the infantile dweeb vote captured then. To placate the frumpy fundies, though, she'll need to don something like a down-homey gingham burqa, with maybe little puffy sleeves to retain something of that smoking hotness.
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'His buttocks are unremarkable except for some very light tan freckling.'
Amazin'.
The Father-Badger, writhing in a cave,
Shrieked out "Return my sons!
You shall have buns," he shrieked, "if you'll behave!
Yea, buns, and buns, and buns!"Lewis Carroll, The Three Badgers
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I should fess up that I have trouble distinguishing Emiliano Zapata from Pancho Villa. Unlike Quixote & Panza they're irredeemably associated for me with refritos and enchiladas, not to mention armadillos. Then there's that vile urine-colored beer that's supposed to be accompanied by a slice of lemon, when it's obvious that even a slice of beetroot would improve the wretched stuff. That's what Michael Laws reminds me of - flat warm Corona beer with beetroot. Thanks Craig.
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And since you brought up Gerald Scarfe -- he's someone I regard very highly as a caricaturist (and his work for theatre is not as esteemed as it should be, IMO). Doesn't change my view that many of his caricatures of Margaret Thatcher had a sexualised (and rather sadistic) edge I find creepy. And would find so if the object of his scorn was Hillary Clinton with a missile poking out of her twat, or Helen Clark as a sow, suckling her front bench.t
Presumably you've seen his 1960s effort of Harold Wilson's cabinet as a bunch of pigs, eating one another's excrement. I thought ot was rather good. If I could be bothered exercising myself to take the barely-living caricature that "Lady" Thatcher has become half-way seriously, I'd probably find her a little creepy.
Oddly enough Scarfe appears to be rather proud of his work for Disney's Hercules. I thought it sucked.
Meanwhile, Michael Laws rides in on his donkey -- the ever reliable Pancho Villa to Winston's Don Quixote.
That'd be Sancho Panza.