Tag Archives: Rupert Murdoch

sunday papers

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Dave

Let them eat chocolate covered matzah. As long as there is a Semite to ridicule, Arab or Jew, the mob is pleased. The Sunday Times cartoon is just another piece of Orientalism, ostensibly from those great humanitarians, those experts at … Continue reading →

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tweet: in your eyes

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Dave

Not expressed in an articulate manner, but there is something unsettling about Rupert Murdoch’s tweet on the Jewish owned press. The Left jumped on his as an anti-Semite,and for the Yid lefties it was kettle black time, but in fact … Continue reading →

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best buy: selling sexism

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Dave

The most sexist ad in the Superbowl….which one? The consensus seems to be Best Buy,but its a multiple horse race.A pile on.  It seems the creative destruction intrinsic to the market based form of capitalism we have needs a rationale … Continue reading →

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how much is not enough

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Dave

If you can justify anything in the name of art can you justify almost everything in the name of profit. Or, are these more successful versions, the cream of the millions of small time hustlers and scam artists who lacked … Continue reading →

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touching a flaming comet

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Dave

The disordering of the senses. A somewhat romantic and irrational project it was, to glorify the romantic’s seemingly narcissistic obsession with the process of creativity, an earnest concern to find the secret of creativity, like a holy grail, or a … Continue reading →

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not pie in the sky

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Dave

It is essential to have voices like Aron Kay on the political spectrum. Agree or not with him, one is not left indifferent. Although sometimes labeled an eccentric activist, its a coherent belief, a throwback to the socialism of nineteenth … Continue reading →

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voltaire banking on the philosopher kings: wall street shuffle

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Dave

“He taught us to be free.” Although he was an absolutist, not especially reasonable, and anything but a revolutionary, Voltaire fought absolutism, embodies the Age of Reason, and made the Revolution inevitable. He died at the dawn of the industrial … Continue reading →

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peasant revolt

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Dave

Is the use of the word “peasant” a pejorative meaning an insulting, derogatory remark?…. In a pejorative sense the term was first applied by the Spanish colonialists to the religious practices of rural indigenous peoples.It was derogatorily applied due to … Continue reading →

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all the news thats fit to stink

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Dave

As the Rupert Murdoch scandal drags on, we are certainly getting a high calorie intake of phony innocence on the part of the public, and self-righteous drivel and comprehensive deceptions practiced and peddled by the pundit class. Whether News Corp’s … Continue reading →

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the whippersnappers

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dave

Is life a theater piece almost entirely concerned with transformation and fragile illusion. Certainly, the News Corp scandal has explored those fugitive relationships between the criminal, the downright irritating and the tawdry sensationalism of seeing the oppressor squirm, metaphorically with … Continue reading →

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