Fellow travellers, you may have read about this strange event, in which the reactionary, peenie-waving London Mayor "Bonking Boris" Johnson saved Franny Armstrong - climate change activist and director of the searing film The Age of Stupid - from an attack by several young women.

I'm sure that this "brave" act was completely unnecessary. Ms Armstrong surely could have protected herself had he not arrived so "heroically" on the scene. That's why these comments are so bizarre: "He was my knight ...
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That appalling oil spill off the Western Australian coast has prompted a brave protest in which sassy sisters in bikinis covered themselves in oil and paraded in front of the Perth offices of the evil corporation responsible for the catastrophe.

While I heartily endorse the statement that these feisty feminist fellow travellers were making with their protest, did they really have to confirm the dominant paradigm of phallocentric lookism to make their point? While they weren't quite participati...
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Fellow travellers, it is with great joy that I finally return to the blogosphere to resume my cyber-activism!

As you all know, I had blogged continually in the past. But ongoing cyber-stalking from the appalling Matt Hayden and other mean-spirited reich-wingers sapped my spiritual reserves until they were almost bone dry. And considering how rich I am in such karmic energy, that's saying something!

During a particularly depressing period, I was reminded of that Buddhist exhortation: surrender a...
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