{"id":715,"date":"2007-06-12T17:46:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T07:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2007-06-12T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T07:46:39","slug":"bloggy-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Bloggy stuff&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AnonymousLefty<\/strong> has <a href=\"http:\/\/anonymouslefty.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/who-writes-this-drivel.html\">drawn my attention<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,20867,21882476-7583,00.html\">yesterday&#8217;s editorial<\/a> in <em>The Australian<\/em>. And I don&#8217;t care what he thinks: I think it&#8217;s brilliant.<strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Editorial: Reality bites the psychotic Left<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By refusing to face modern realities, the Australian Left has dealt itself out of the national debate<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FOR evidence, if any more were needed, that the intellectual Left has become completely divorced from reality, turn to page 14 of the latest edition of <em>The Monthly<\/em>, where <em>Clive Hamilton<\/em> describes the therapeutic effect of bushfires at Christmas. &#8220;As the orgy of spending reaches a climax we begin to wonder whether we have become decadent,&#8221; the [social democratic] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tai.org.au\/\">Australia Institute<\/a><\/strong> executive director writes. &#8220;The firies who battle the elements on our behalf remind us of our &#8216;true&#8217; selves.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Intriguingly, a <a href=\"http:\/\/dengwatch.blogspot.com\/\">commentator<\/a> claims that it&#8217;s &#8220;No coincidence that <em>Teh Australian<\/em> picks out <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonthly.com.au\">The Monthly<\/a><\/em> magazine for criticism, given that this month&#8217;s issue features the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericellis.com\/\">Eric Ellis<\/a><\/em> profile of Murdoch&#8217;s sexy young Chinese-born wife, <em>Wendi Deng<\/em>. For anyone not up to date with the background story here, Murdoch forced Fairfax to spike the Ellis story (even though they had commissioned it at considerable price), but <em>The Monthly<\/em> bravely picked it up. Murdoch sold his minority share in Fairfax shortly afterwards, suggesting a deal may have been made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I&#8217;ve also run across a new (February &#8217;07) blog called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lacomplaintedupartisan.blogspot.com\/\">The Partisan<\/a><\/strong>, authored by <em>The Happy Revolutionary<\/em>. It&#8217;s neat. As is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralianindex.com\/\">The Australian Index<\/a><\/strong>: Exploring Australian Blogs.<\/p>\n<ul><strong>*<\/strong>That is, as a demonstration of <em>The Australian<\/em>&#8216;s witless polemicising at its very best\/worst, it is of surpassing excellence.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AnonymousLefty has drawn my attention to yesterday&#8217;s editorial in The Australian. And I don&#8217;t care what he thinks: I think it&#8217;s brilliant.* Editorial: Reality bites the psychotic Left By refusing to face modern realities, the Australian Left has dealt itself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=715\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-bx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}