WE live in strange and hallucinogenic times. Last week, one of the sleazy cowboys of the American money markets was finally brought to book for his part in spreading the corporate equivalent of the clap through the international economy.
The face of debauched US capitalism was not some Machiavellian Ponzi schemer but Jim Cramer, a squealing [...]
Archive > June 2009
Jon Stewart – a one-man fifth estate
Taking alcohol
PERHAPS you’ve seen those alcohol education ads on telly that show consecutive generations of dads usingtheir young sons as beer monkeys at boozy barbecues.
They point out that parents who get on the piss tend to leave big, stubbie-shaped indents on the super-absorbent psyches of their sprogs (as well as highlighting that those 1970s porn-star moustaches [...]
The etiquette of “after you” planet-saving
GREETINGS fellow climate change deniers/sceptics/believers-but-smelters-of-far-too-much-aluminium-to-admit-it. As you know, one of the best things about our position is the ease with which we can clear-fell our opponents.
When faced with shiny, happy hustles such as last weekend’s Hour of No Power, for example, it’s all too cinchy to accuse participants of self-righteous tokenism.
“Instead of sitting in the [...]
The pleasures of the electrophilic Alain de Botton
THE critics have not always been kind to British pop philosopher Alain de Botton. In one review, Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker performed the literary equivalent of a high school head flushing, calling de Botton a slapheaded ponce and an “absolute pair-of-aching-balls of a man” whose books were the toast of aspirational tosspots.
Brooker followed this with a [...]
