AN American blogger is berating parents for buying their babies bibs with “hottie” logos. She accuses these parental pimps of advertising their kiddies as prostitots and encouraging pedophiles: “I have to wonder if they think about the child predators who claim that kids are flirting with them or asking for it,” the blogger writes.
This, awfully [...]
Archive > December 2008
Save us from the sexy babies
Dear sport
DEAR Sport,
You probably don’t remember me but I was the fat kid who tried and sucked at netball, soccer, hockey, squash, judo, long-distance running, no-distance running and, very briefly and traumatically, synchronised swimming.
I did my best to get to know you but the two of us weren’t compatible. I didn’t like your alpha dog-eat-dog competitivism [...]
Unprecedented opportunities for courtship and infidelity – the travesty of the telegraph
MOST media stories about the internet concern its evil deeds: its fame-a-fying of Finnish serial shooters is just one, not particularly grammatical, example. Reading the headlines, it’s easy to assume that the cyber-sphere poses a threat like no other. There have, however, been many precedents.
Guess which technological breakthrough was accused of causing young people to [...]
What part of “you are a shambling capitalist skinbag” do you not understand?
AT the risk of kicking capitalism while it’s down, clearly the time has come for the Big C to reassess its rapaciousness beyond the esoteric realms of the international money markets.
Thanks to the media’s ever-increasing massness (not to mention the increasing affordability of the average item), capitalism’s obsession with always trying to sell everyone everything [...]
