Jim H.

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Advertising cars to the post-ironic generation

Jim H. posted an article on - Sep 16, 2009, 4:43 pm
Car adverts have always been a little weird… but that was mainly because they depicted a fantasy world in which very very shiny things drive around on very very windy roads (where fortuitously t...
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Muntader Al Zaida - Shoe Thrower and "Iraqi Hero"

Jim H. posted an article on - Dec 17, 2008, 6:41 am
If you have a TV or basically live anywhere that isn’t under a rock, you will have heard about Iraqi journalist Muntader Al Zaida having managed to throw his shoes at American President, George ...
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R.A.W. and Mencken on Economics, etc.

Jim H. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2008, 5:23 pm
I just want to bring a couple of very interesting essays to your attention, both of which serve as useful correctives to the recent news coverage of the ‘financial crisis’. The first is by...
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Prop 8 Protests

Jim H. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2008, 11:24 am
So I thought I’d post some videos from the protests against Prop 8, passed on Nov. 4th banning gay marriage - because, well, it’s pretty cool to see communities galvanize themselves for ju...
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So, President-Elect Obama.

Jim H. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2008, 9:03 am
  A Mother’s Grief: This woman had lost her son in Iraq. She wanted people to know that it was not unpatriotic to be against the war and for Obama. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2/11/2007. © Callie Shel...
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A lesson in the definition of 'political puppet'

Jim H. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2008, 9:47 am
This video is quite shocking, if only for revealing the extent of things. The speakers are John Howard, then PM of Australia, and Stephen Harper, now PM of Canada. As you can see, within 2 days of eac...
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On Body Politics, Modification and Identity

Jim H. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2008, 8:17 pm
Warning: Trolls will be bahleeted! One of the basic assumptions of you having arrived on this site is that you can understand the concept of subjectivity. Thank-you. NB: If you are squeamish, or have ...
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American Papist - the hotlinking affair, and One More Promethean's revenge

Jim H. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2008, 4:25 pm
  The other day, we noticed a new link to us on our wordpress admin page. It was, disappointingly, merely someone hotlinking to a picture we were hosting (and thus using up our bandwidth). This was e...
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Colin Powell's cryptic warning about a 'crisis' on the 21st / 22nd January

Jim H. posted an article on - Oct 21, 2008, 7:17 pm
Not much to say about this one, apart from - wtf? (This comes from the same Powell interview where he endorses Obama). Around 2:38, Powell states, and this is verbatim: ‘There’s gonna be a...
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The Times: Terrorists are in league with Paedophiles

Jim H. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2008, 9:21 am
  Here’s your daily dose of propaganda, kids: Dangerous and depraved: paedophiles unite with terrorists online. This is one of the worst examples of Rupert Murdoch’s ‘journalismR...
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'The End of America' and 'Give me Liberty' (Naomi Wolf)

Jim H. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2008, 4:48 pm
Just needed to post these two videos of Naomi Wolf speaking. She’s the author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot and Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutiona...
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