IMAGINE, for a moment, that you suffer from Socially Unacceptable Illness X (to keep things simple, let’s call it SUX*).
The first, tell-tale signs appear when you’re just a little tacker. If you showed symptoms of meningitis or a skate-boarding skull bust, the large people in your life would rush you straight to a doctor.
But this [...]
Archive > November 2008
When life really SUX
Baby on board
FOR a long time I didn’t get the “Baby on Board” car sign thing.
I agreed with comedian George Carlin (who described these as the three most puke-inducing words invented), and preferred parodies such as Pit Bull on Board, Ex-Boyfriend in Boot or Warning: Baby is Closer Than it Appears.
Rumour had it that these annoying yellow [...]
Pink isn’t for this girl
LAST weekend I tried to buy my daughter a toy tip-truck. In our inner-city see-saw zone, Tonka-type items are crucial for the moving of playground bark from one spot to another, an activity that can absorb the average attention-deficited ankle biter for a truly gratifying number of minutes.
In our inner-city see-saw zone, there’s also a lot [...]
The difficulties of perversion-proofing
FUNDAMENTALIST Muslims are notorious for insisting that women dress in what is supposed to be pervert-proof clothing.
Apparently the female form is so provocative — so much like an open can of Whiskas — that exposed males risk instant transformation into one of those noxious tom cats that squirts urine on to antique couch legs, always [...]
Who you calling rich?
AUSTRALIAN newspapers should be carrying big, red “Oh the humanity” warnings so readers can brace themselves for the horror that lies within. Death and destruction in China. Death and despotism in Burma.
And most harrowing of all: the unspeakable deprivations suffered by victims of the Rudd Government’s first budget.
Cyclone Swan and Earthquake Kev ripped through the [...]
US election skanks
ACCUSATIONS of sexism are ricocheting round the American presidential campaign like bullets in a bank safe.
There are so many shooters firing from so many ideological angles, it’s hard to work out who, if anyone, is landing a shot.
First, the Hillary Clinton campaign. While some claimed it was sexist that Billary got a shot at the [...]
Stunning pre-election satire from The Daily Show…
Samantha Bee versus John “in air quotes” McCain and his strictly abstract views on abortion…
