This is an excellent piece by Barry Jones in The Australian in which he highlights the extraordinarily dangerous attitude currently being promoted as the “new normal” by politicians and their lackeys in the western world, in which objectivity, rationality and informed debate are completely subsumed by “faith”, expedience and knee-jerk reactivity:
We live in an era […]
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abnormal is the new normal
19Sep07Simon points to this article over at The Age, which walks the fine line between unreadable madness and compelling stream-of-consciousness genius and is probably a fairly hilarious discourse on… well, something:
Well, that wake up call is here. That’s what this is about. Everybody has their time, and your time is Now. This is your moment. […]
coulrophobia junior
22Jun07In case there was any doubt left that marketing is the applied practice of pure evil, McDonalds have confirmed it with this terrifying baby-clown-monster advertisment:
At last, you can combine your fear of clowns, your distaste for fast food, and your revulsion at sex dolls and paedophiles in one family restaurant.
Update: it seems that McDonald’s good […]
branding the planet
15Nov06Kentucky Fried Chicken has apparently taken the novel step of branding the planet itself with a giant KFC logo in the southern United States. One of KFC’s soulless marketing drones makes the following vacuous remark:
The Colonel is truly a global icon and we want everyone in the universe to see KFC’s new look of […]
