Have just finished a new EP, ‘Faustian Bargain Hunt.’ It features ‘Fuck the TSA (If You’re Molesting People, the Terrorists Have Already Won)’ inspired by my recent soujourn in the land of the fee and home of the slave. Tracklisting 1. Fuck the TSA (If You’re Molesting People, the Terrorists Have Already Won) 02:24 2.…
I think, therefore I am. I think and act for myself, therefore I am. I think and act for myself in recognising the existence of others with equal capacities as mine and the equal right to exercise them, therefore I am. Except we live in a world hostile to individual freedoms, and therefore to self-actualisation…
Narcissistic attention seeker and professional supply addict Pauline Hanson protests descriptions of racism and comparisons to racist counterpart US Presidential candidate Donald Drumpf. ‘Australians are so over being labelled as racist,’ Hanson says to Sky News, while both she and her interviewers somehow manage to miss the glaring cognitive dissonance of denying being racist while…
Book launch: ‘The Booger Peril: A History of Things to Come’ Saturday 19 March, 6pm @ NIBS meeting room, Trades Hall, Carlton. Will have copies on sale for anyone keen to grab one. Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1552385328410118/1568833226765328/
@Piece in Arena Magazine; text is an edited version of a talk I gave on ‘Halal Certification: The Muslim Scapegoating and the National Safety Valve’ at the “Muslim Question,” Citizenship and Racism Symposium run by Deakin in December 2015. Here’s the first page; if you like the rest go buy the magazine!
Community of racists, apparently.
First short story I’ve written in years; wrote it for a short story competition in 2015. It didn’t win. It didn’t even place. I’m still happy with it. * An electronic device on the bedside table begins a dull drumbeat, like your heart pounding inside your head as you face a firing squad. Like maybe…
IN the autumn of 68 B.C. the world’s only military superpower was dealt a profound psychological blow by a daring terrorist attack on its very heart. Rome’s port at Ostia was set on fire, the consular war fleet destroyed, and two prominent senators, together with their bodyguards and staff, kidnapped. The incident, dramatic though it…
From the Australian Greens: So, the Minister for Counter-Terrorism has given education ministers “radicialisation awareness information kits” for their students to help identify warning signs of radicalisation in young people. Meet Karen. Karen went to an environmental protest one afternoon with her friends. She describes it as “exhilarating, fun and she felt like she was…