The state of play
Sometimes ‘being a dick’ can be demonstrated by someone who doesn’t have a dick.
Robert Brockway presented the following to the New Zealand Conference over Zoom. In 2023 he attended the conference in person and hopes to do so again in 2025. –Ed. There’s an old joke. I don’t recall when I first heard it. Although the wording varies, I first heard it as: “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t …
The 16th century was a time of powerful female rulers in Western Europe. Queen Elizabeth ruled for what amounts to the second half of the 16th century. She was no figurehead either. She was the absolute ruler of England and Ireland (Britain would not arise as a state until generations later). Legally she was a …
Keep an ear out for the mention of male variability which we’ve been talking about for a decade. Good to see knowledge of this going mainstream. Tim mentions Hillary Clinton’s famous comment about women being the primary victims of war. The original quote is from 1998. A lot of people don’t know that she repeated …
With a nod to the great work done by Bloodstained Men, here is a picture showing pushback by Ugandans after the American government spent billions promoting genital mutilation propaganda in African nations. Brother K. states, “AMERICAN HEGEMONY … The United States won’t educate or feed the impoverished nations of Africa, but we spent billions of …
100 years ago a classic entry in the genre of British adventure fiction was published, but don’t expect any gushing centennial retrospectives. Not surprisingly, given its age, Percy Christopher Wren’s Beau Geste has some triggering content, largely racial slurs and stereotypes. The colonial setting alone would be enough to brand it taboo these days. The …
Australian senator Lidia Thorpe is in the news again. As usual this is for all the wrong reasons. This time she caused a disturbance in Parliament House. She yelled at the King and renounced her oath of allegiance. The video below shows her taking the oath of allegiance in 2022. She inserted words on her …