Friday, 29 March 2013

Anti PC gone mad #2: Cold Dead Hand

Jim Carrey has returned to form in a biting spoof of American gun nuttery:





Not surprisingly, the usual anti-PC suspects are kicking up a stink and hoisting themselves on their own petard. I'll leave The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur - a fully-recovered faith-based dogmatist - to do the deconstruction for us.




Sunday, 10 March 2013

Hitler buys into Mighty River Power

When I'm not grinding in the latest Warcraft patch or surviving Planet Pandora, there have been no shortage of issues that have had me resisting the temptation to break my screen in half of late. The ongoing Novopay debacle, charter schools, university cuts, the Mighty River Power fire-sale, golden handshakes, socialism for the rich and austerity for the rest, holiday highways, all-round anti-intellectualism... you name it.

But those are for another post. So, to lighten the mood...