Shacklebeast

Who… who does this?! Who thinks “Well I can draw, so I’ll draw… THAT rather than turn my talent to drawing manga porn like the rest of my talented freak friends”

A Tangential Aside

I know that we usually don’t post this kind of thing, but I feel it is more than appropriate that, sometimes, to a degree, we are exposed to the morale-damaging notion that our kindred are not invincible http://blogs.gettyimages.com/news/2007/05/30/memorial-day-at-arlington-national-cemetery/ I urge all of you to read it. I honestly think it’d be for the best. Though [...]

Seeing the Light

Permanent Fixture Forgive me, David. Authorised Tim Andrews, Liberal Party, Sydney.

Bellicose Blather

Protip: If you actually refer to Kevin Rudd as “Prime Dickhead” I have a simple and quick recipe for you. Mix two parts you with one part fast-moving inter-city train. Add a splash of realisation of mortality and leave to sit until an underpaid cleanup crew gently convinces your rapidly drying remains to relieve themselves [...]

Monosyllabic Muckraking!

We’re back after a sojurn to Melbourne. Yes, that’s right, check Landeryou for the whole situation. Interestingly enough the Melbourne Young Liberals are about as mentally balanced and as physiologically damaging as tertiary syphilis. Aspersions on their possession of long-incubated STI’s aside, I’ve returned to the greatest City in the land, Sydney, only to be [...]

Tokenistic Gesture #307

Yay, Kyoto. We’ve signed it. But we’ve got to wait until the UN Ratifies it, but we’ve signed it, even though we were on track to meet those targets, but we’ve signed it. We’re also going to send Indigenous Australians a Hallmark card wishing them “Great Sorrow UnJoy at the Passing of their Much Repentance.” [...]

Rudd’s ‘mandate’ to remove WorkChoices

There’s been a lot of fuss made over the last week or so about whether or not the Coalition should vote in favour of Comrade Gillard’s proposed changes to the WorkChoices legislation, based on the supposition that they have a mandate to do so. There are a few problems with this argument: Coalition Senators (and [...]