Yes, it seems people out there truly want to be mocked in a public forum! On my entry here, a review of Jonathan Spence’s The Question of Hu, an entertaining little text which is also a great introduction to Spence’s approach to Chinese history, one Anthony Dawkin (let’s assume he can spell his own name, even if he cannot think) deemed to pronounce his well-considered judgment on the worthiness of the text spew his uninformed, microcephalic un-opinion onto the blogosphere to nauseate as many people as possible: Anthony Dawkin | at 2:14 AM | 2008/09/18 | 68.179.147.205 I would …
Tag: idiots
Surface-to-Troll Smackdown
If you troll my site, I will delete your comment unreplied to, unless it’s worth posting in a post of its own for a little mockery and hack’n’slash, because heaven knows on a long day, that’s a great stress reliever. Frex, the following comment that showed up on this post. Anon | 98.218.151.45 | 2008/09/16 http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/02/10/62-knowing-whats-best-for-poor-people/?cp=46 I have a couple of things to say about that.
The Brilliance Abounds!
On this post ranting about Deepak Chopra, I got a comment which I decided not to publish and mock, because I’d rather excerpt the crap in a post and mock in a more public venue. You might want to read the Chopra post, but then again, if you know me from this blog, I’m sure you can guess what I had to say, and the comment is pretty tangential, so you don’t absolutely need to read the post. The comment, sitting there in my Comments Awaiting Moderation box in all its glory (like a flaming paper bag of turds), went …
The Rip-Off
Some weeks, things really do raise my hackles. It’s the concatenation of all kinds of things that are probably universal, but which in Korea are much more in-your-face or more, I don’t know, commonly accepted. What’s hitting me more and more is how the atmosphere of acceptability impacts negatively on individuals and on society in general. That’s what I’m focusing on now, here in this post.
Passports and Immigration and “Low Quality Foreigners”
Well, headaches averted, really. So far. I’ve been a bit of an ostrich, not paying attention to the whole Korean news/expat blog scene, and it came up and bit me in the back end last night. I came across these posts — like this one — that bespoke a big change afoot in Korean visa renewal procedures. The last I’d heard, those living here didn’t need to worry about that, but this sounded more complicated. Things like having to fly to Canada every time I get a different job, for example, or needing a criminal record check for March 1st. …
Toxic waste mystery in Ivory Coast
Got some toxic waste? Too costly to dump in Europe? Hey, why not just dump it in Africa? Toxic waste mystery in Ivory Coast deepens – health – 15 September 2006 – New Scientist reports: Seven people are now reported dead, and 30,000 injured, by toxic waste dumped in August at 11 open tips around Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The Ivorian cabinet has resigned over the incident, and on Friday angry crowds burned the house of the port director. But some dumps are still reported to be unfenced, with children playing in them. Treatment of the victims will depend on what …
Seeds of Change
Seeds of Change is a documentary about Monsanto and other biotech monsters and their influence on the world. Made in Manitoba, Paypal if you like it. (via How to Save the World)
“IMF wins new powers to police global economy”
When I saw the title to this article, which is the title of this post as well, I gaped. Why? A theme in an old, abandoned novel was the life of a WTO-UN soldier who was policing economic-development zones: a Chinese soldier, one of the many “extra” men who could not marry in Chinese due to shortages of women, who was serving in Africa. But he was literally “policing” the development of the economy in whichever country I plopped him into. I think this character needs to make another appearance, as the idea is pretty cool. But maybe it’d be …
Repeat after me:
P2P is not hurting the music industry. P2P is not hurting the music industry. P2P is not hurting the music industry. Got it? Here’s yet another study that demonstrates it. (via Sivacracy)
Disturbing
Miles Thirst is this character that Sprite seems to have invented to shore up sales among young black people and white teenagers. It’s sad when you can look at an advertising campaign and point out its motivation like that, but it’s so painfully obvious. Now, here’s the thing: it’s not just the weird, very white-suburban praise of hip-hop that seems to offensive to me — “If lovin’ hip-hop is wrong, I don’t wanna be right!” — nor the obvious patronizing that goes along with such a statement made, after all, with a big SPRITE sign in the background… ie. Is …