Simon Taylor
just because I repeat it and repeat it don’t make it not true
I wish you weren’t using fb as a medium. It seems hypocritical to do so. This forum is a private enterprise profiting from unpaid public labour – in the guise of being a public good. Of course, Ggle and the browserscape similarly exploit – some predict its extinction – the middle class
link via Louise Desrenards: China and Russia do not negotiate with Wimperialists
l i n k
on the property trail dreaming maybe Doyle’s warehouse is Kumeu Opera House or Bollywood Westie, Wollywood, but at this price maybe you would like to contribute: feel free to. But this was back in April. maybe it’s gone up.
in Wellington at the end of summer we were as usual set upon by art, including the video work of the Chinese artist featuring the little elephant and Len Lye
on the property hunt #1 and plastic bullets
moving on from a discussion of the attractions of the Weimar, Tony Judt says and Timothy Snyder records:
The notion that what is wrong with bourgeois democracy is the adjective rather than the noun was a brilliant innovation on the part of Marxist rhetoricians. If the problem with western democracies is that they are bourgeois (whatever that means), then internal critics constrained to live in such places may