Blog Storm

The ABC’s Media Watch does a good job (as usual) at debunking the bullshit surrounding Opposition Leader Mark Latham’s alleged raunchy alleged bucks night alleged video sprung onto a voracious press by Howard’s cadre of muckrakers. As expected, the pious drivel came thick and fast from a wide range of media sources (the Murdoch News Ltd. press was automatically a given, but the Sydney Morning Herald should know better (Miranda Devine’s continued employment notwithstanding)), yet it started to become strangely apparent that nobody could actually lay claim to having seen this video. All sources of information regarding the contents of the sleazy tool of political career destruction seemed oddly sketchy and ephemeral. David Marr succinctly outlines the rest.

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I recall a few years ago that there was a kerfuffle surrounding this game. Conservative mouth-breathing types were upset at the content, and demanded that it be banned it from sale, citing that it would send kids yearning to carjack hotrods and speed around with no regard for road laws, dropping bullet-riddled gang members and mowing down hapless police officers with gleeful, cackling abandon. Luckily, sanity prevailed, and the call for censorship was dismissed on the grounds that a stupid little video game could not arouse such anarchic bloodlust in any sensible, articulate individual. My personal opinion? OH YES IT FUCKING DOES!!!!!!!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

*hurls self through nearest window and disappears into the night*

Raving makes a pertinent point regarding the first in what will no doubt be a long, insipid line of “Marlon Brando In Heaven” newspaper cartoons. Let’s, as Diderot recommends, just give the hypothesis a little push.

Keeping it queer

by Polly Bush

A new contestant has emerged in the lead-up to this year’s federal poll, with the launching of a political party prepared to take on the Howard Government’s gay wedge issue - or at least, take the issue up to a higher level.

The Keeping-It-Queer (KIQ) Party, launched today, has been formed as a direct response to the Government’s recent policy announcements to legislate against marriage and overseas adoption rights for gay and lesbian Australians.

While the new Party opposes the Government’s policies, Party President Les Beyan said the Coalition’s “regrettable” position left it no other option but to work with the Government in further creating a segregated society.

I literally yelled that when I noticed this headline.

Screen legend Brando dead at 80

Screen legend Marlon Brando, famous for his roles in On the Waterfront and The Godfather, has died aged 80 in a Los Angeles hospital, his lawyer has said.

Brando, who had been ill for some time, was regarded as one of the pivotal actors of the post-war period.

He starred in more than 40 films, including Apocalypse Now, and won two best actor Oscars.

He is perhaps best known for his role as mafia leader Don Corleone in the 1972 classic The Godfather.

Brando’s lawyer, David J Seeley, said the cause of death was being withheld and added that the actor “was a very private man”.