POLITICS, POETRY & SATIRE
Beyond the Fringe oddly gains a G rating from the latest purulent meme fad oozing through the blogoswamp. Hear that, all you nauseatingly prim rightists and other-people’s-privates-fondling religious weirdos?
Check out your site’s supposed rating here.
As for us, we’ll just have to try harder.
Amazingly, the vigilant Chinese authorities have not blocked Beyond The Fringe, according to the three location test at Website Pulse. Not so at the Great Firewall of China test, where every site I tried on several servers besides this one was blocked. [NB Now clear on this test]. You can also use this test.
Beyond The Fringe is also listed on Google China – four pages of references isn’t too bad considering the site hasn’t been up for too long in its present form and location.
It must be time to write something pointedly critical about human rights abuses and censorship in China, besides one’s usual diatribes about Chinese purchases at bargain basement prices of Asstralian resources.
The avante garde blogospherical catchword describing a political blog apparently is plog.
Would that make Beyond the Fringe, as a satirical, political blog, a slog plog, plog slog, stog plog, plog stog, shag plog or plog shag?
Plog Shag, whilst rolling off the tongue, reminds one of those ubiquitous, self-congratulatory, neocon, pundit plogger circle jerks – plogshaggers, the lot of them.
So what about Sharplog? Beyond the Fringe – the Essential Sharplog.
Something for the semiotically obsessed gits prancing round the pocket pissing Asstralian blogocracy to grogblog and plogshag about.
Becoming bored with the creative, coding and speed limitations of Blogspot, we decided Beyond the Fringe deserved a fast new location with its own domain. We’ve employed open source WordPress software which provides the use of pages and a growing pot pourri of plugins.
With some modifications of the very versatile Mandigo theme, we’ve conjured up a look which we feel suits our aims, along with providing flexibility to change the top fringy pic easily when we feel like a change. We hope you, the jaded netsurfer, enjoy our new relaxed look! Comments are welcome. 🙂
Kevvie strikes back at Johnny with a near knockout blow, and although we wish he would bring the focus back to the government’s palpably weak point – climate change – while the issue is still hot and before Johnny shepherds the electorate into unctuous worship of his economic record, he is maintaining an impressive, logical front. Johnny’s actions, along with his quivering whiskers when interviewed by Kerry O’Brien on the 7.30 Report last night, betray the fact that he is losing the Iraq debate even without and perhaps in spite of a head to head confrontation with Kevvie.
Johnny’s mob stifled debate on Iraq in Parliament this morning – run away, run away – and this morning Johnny fails to up the ante on 2GB with Alan Jones, bleating that a national televised debate with Kevvie would be just a smokescreen.
Talk about projection. We also think that Johnny’s conviction, oft repeated on the 7.30 Report interview that Australia cannot afford American defeat and humiliation in Iraq may also be projection – it is Howard who needs ongoing conflagration to maintain with his comfortable war leader, best buddy of Doodoo image into the run up to our next election. Interestingly, Paul Kelly picks up on this too in a particularly scathing column.
Kevvie smartly rejoinders to Johnny on ABC: “What is his alternative strategy, if he’s a man of courage, to tell the Australian people about how he intends to win the war in Iraq.” Reasonably, Kev indicates his flexibility to consult with the US on early withdrawal and his approval of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group Report.
At this point, we have to wonder whether the Australian media is at last turning on Johnny?
Headline from The Australian: Rudd attacks ‘gutless’ Howard
Headline from The Age: ‘Gutless’ Howard gags debate
Leunig’s hilarious cartoon for today is also worth a squiz. And so is Patrick Leahy’s Valentine card from John to Doodoo.
