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  I can’t get enough of highly educated citizens of the USA stroking their chins thoughtfully as they tweet about the Ukraine while massive, knotty turds that look like a child’s attempt at pottery fall out of their arses into the toilet of their fifth bathroom. They pace back and forth in their four car garages, vaping and formulating their high minded thoughts about a possible Russian invasion, apparently in a state of amnesia of their own support for not one, but two invasions of Iraq. They lean against the outdoor pizza oven they have never used as they ponder the complexities of a geopolitics they have been wrong about since before they were born. They suck their own cocks with a special tube they ordered online, I don’t know where I’m going with that image, but unlike these people I’m creative and sometimes when I’m creating something amazing and pure happens.       They hail a taxi and start a conversation about Russia. When the driver pauses to breathe on his rant about how Rus

  People who work in hospitals have been having an extremely bad time for two years with no let up. Healthcare workers are quitting, they’re walking away, but some who are completely burnt out are staying and their reasoning is that if they leave, people will die. This is tragic logic. If enough workers in hospitals stopped turning up to do their job, things would have to change, but good people insist on taking the weight of the world on their shoulders. Which means the world can’t change. This is being alive in a right wing world. Good people are the one thing putting off the collapse of a terrible world that deserves to die. Good people need to take themselves a bit less seriously and start thinking about what would happen if they walked away and allowed health systems to collapse properly. The current system is abusive of workers. It’s no secret that healthcare workers work ridiculous shifts, are put under insane pressure and this is done to them because they are either altruistic

Is the Russia-Ukraine situation the perfect opportunity for people to get angry at each other for being wrong? Like all citizens who live whole lives immersed in American propaganda I am an expert on Russia, but I'm still not confident about being correct. As for Ukraine, I have watched one very good movie and listened to two very good episodes of a podcast, so I guess you could say I'm a professor of Ukrainology. I don't know what's going on but I do know a) people are mad at each other and b) I am smarter than them. Unless they’re Ukrainians. But not if they’re Ukrainian Nazis. America’s soccer moms have a twelve inch hard-on for bloodshed and Russia is moving troops around in a way that indicates they’ve noticed the Imperial pre-come. It’s fair that people will be afraid and talking in terms of preventing war from breaking out. But it’s so hard to take it all seriously when you're aware that Ukraine has an impressive Nazi problem, as in Ukrainian Nazis who believ

Joe Rogan has an audience easily 10 times larger than the population of the United States, speaking purely in terms of ego footprint. To a man, Joe Rogan's audience are certified thought leaders. Joe Rogan is the pope of self improvement. Self improvement is when you listen to a podcast while prepping a smoothie with your own come in it. Joe Rogan’s influence over the minds of men is best explained by the fact that learning from Joe Rogan is like listening to the hypnotic sound of a library burning down. Every time you say Joe Rogan's name he becomes more powerful. He's like the candy man, no wait, his audience is like the candy man. Say his name and fans, men who are unaware of any other way to access information outside of a Joe Rogan podcast, but at a pinch will read books from KMart, will appear to lecture you to death, using quotes from Winston Churchill, who they believe was in the SAS. The Joe Rogan of Joe Rogan is that Joe Rogan only becomes more Joe Rogan if you ta

  Solar geoengineering is technology that doesn’t exist. It’s like a meme you shouldn’t look up unless you want to be sad and looking out at the horizon, trying to feel something again. Scientists are begging for research into solar geoengineering to be made illegal because it involves partially blotting out the sun. Yes. Darkening the sky to slow down global warming. Sure. Lowering temperatures by hindering the passage of the sun’s rays through the atmosphere. Friends, I feel you, you’re right, anyone advocating this shite should be run through with the sad end of a beach umbrella. Like a cocktail garnish. Scientists want this madness aborted, partly,  but massively because there is no planetary justice system to control the use and abuse of the technology. It could be used by idiots*. It could be applied willy nilly across the planet, backfire and tear whole nations apart. It could be used as a weapon by people** who don’t know how to aim it. Anyone suggesting we give it a go should

  Not that anyone's asking, but I'm boycotting the Sydney Festival until the end of time, or until their entire board is removed and replaced with people who don’t dribble shit when it comes to Apartheid Israel. Sydney Festival took money from Apartheid Israel. This is part of a process called Artwashing. Apartheid Israel throws money at the arts to align itself with the entirely apolitical world of the arts. Except Australian Palestinian activists very gently and kindly asked artists booked into the Sydney Festival to withdraw in solidarity with Palestinians, who live under apartheid? Turns out art is political? Because lots of artists agreed to pull out? Suck shit apartheid dogz? Zionists say, “We are the only democracy in the Middle East. We are a diverse LGBT rainbow paradise” they will also tell you to your face that the Palestinian people don't exist. Israel is kept in the torture and murder business thanks to American assistance. With all that power, the world's

When I first heard of Joe Rogan he was a stand up comic who would do a Woman Voice when he did jokes about women. A true crime against ears. A manly man affecting an aggravating shriek. He gave the impression of an ordinary person who preferred to hang out with idiots. Joe Rogan was on a good sitcom, then he was the host of Fear Factor, introducing people to putting their heads in containers full of spiders. The show was successful, he was paid a lot of money. He made lots of dough as a fight commentator. He got into podcasting. He advocates the use of psychedelics. He’s used them a lot. Any information that floats through that head risks being bizarrely linked to another factoid that he sort of heard once, which is probably why ideas try to avoid him. Precisely because of a lack of critical thinking he's wildly popular. Thanks to his podcast he has weaponised a brain that is very far from being a weapon. Thought leaders who have no useful thoughts are everywhere now. Joe Rogan tel

There was a time when I had an RSS feed. I subscribed to ninety or so blogs and websites and I would scroll through to see who had written something interesting today. I couldn't possibly keep up with the flow of information, so I read what I could and learned to let the rest go. It wasn’t information overload, it was an abundance of information and it was great. Things move fast online. One day Google told me, “We're putting and end to this RSS feed shit. We're not going to tell you why. Piss off.” The internet went from awesome to rubbish in no time. A long time ago, a TV producer said to me, “Hey, if you're going to do your thing, you should have a Facebook page because that's where people in the business will look for you.” I set up a Facebook page. I didn't know what Facebook would become. It would become the only place. Twitter would become the only place. Instagram would become the only place. And TV producers are of course not interested in what I have t

I think Australia has enough applicants for the job of polite social change advocate. Asking nicely is a guaranteed pathway to failure, however in Australia you can have a career as a failure: someone who in quiet desperation beseeches the powers that be to do better. Asking nicely works really well when there are no stakes. For a country that was taken by force many of this nation's inhabitants are strangely fixated on approaching power in the most powerless ways possible. Of course, this is because to professionally nice people this is all a game. Elderly prisoners of society crying out for help that never comes in nursing home beds; First Nations people being murdered by cops; unemployed people being driven to suicide by a welfare system that prioritizes no one's welfare? These are not games. These are not puzzles. These are not riddles. There is no guessing game where you arrive at the correct clever yet still sensitive slogan to disarm the powers that be. This isn't ch

Just when we’re bored with the USA, along comes the worst and most reliably entertaining American of all: the parent. Many American parents slobber to exert all sorts of black magic over not only their children, but all children. Gaze upon these freaks as they snake their way onto a school board. Observe that these breeders are the most gleefully committed child abuse network on the planet. Yes, a school board is essentially a coven of demented witches wreaking havoc on the minds of little kiddies, though I’m sure there are school boards dominated not by book banning energy drink lords, but by their nightmare opposite, breakfast smoothie fence sitters. Horrible parents have banned another important book and I say, keep going. Let’s see how far this goes before nauseating fence sitters- well, there is no before and after for fence sitters, there is only the endless now of risk averse nothingness- do worse than nothing. No nation, not even the US, is actually overrun by grinning morons,

I've being paying no attention to what might be about to happen in Ukraine, but today I read an article in The Age written by Peter Hartcher. He talks about the US retreat from Afghanistan and that Russia and China, or anyone who was paying attention (not me), would have seen that as a defining moment, like the fall of the Berlin Wall, or the September 11 attacks. Hence some flexing about Ukraine to draw a line under the end of an era. The end of US imperialism? The end of US domination? Boy oh boy! In 2020 I sat there glued to multiple screens, following the Black Lives Matter protests and watching as cops shot people in the face. The brutality was staggering. Then I watched as the hopeful era of Bernie Sanders came to a bitter end and a senility case became the next President of the United States. And it was then that I stopped paying attention to the United States. I got bored. The United States has so many fingers in so many pies, it can be hard to keep track of what they'r