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Why the Andrew Bolt guilty verdict is a victory for free speech

Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, September 29, 2011,
Oh joy! Joy and cat dancing! The racist hate mongering trollumnist Andrew Bolt has been silenced at last!

This is wonderful thing for democracy, fellow travellers. (And by that I mean authentic democracy, not the shamocracy endorsed by conservatives.)

But of course you all know that. To say so is practically preaching to the converted (but not in a Christian way, of course).

Needless to say, Bolt sees the guilty verdict as something sinister. In his usual eeevil and highly emotive way, he frames...
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Muslim group's critique of Christmas deemed evil by bigoted Britons

Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, December 24, 2010,
Fellow travellers, one thing that always angers me is how Christians are so intolerant of other people's worldviews. Be they worshippers of other gods, or none at all, Bible thumping conservatives just won't let them be.

Take the controversy over a planned campaign against Christmas by a group of UK Muslims. This collection of concerned and quite courageous citizens is rather insensitively labelled an "Islamic hate group" in this article.

Organisers plan to put up thousands of placards around t...
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Giant lizard has profound message

Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, April 7, 2010,
Fellow travellers, upon reading this article about a lizard that was recently discovered in the Philippines I was deeply appalled. You see, this close relative of the Komodo Dragon actually possesses two penises!

What on (Mother) Earth could Gaia be saying with this! As we all know Nature is kind and loving - the very antithesis of phallocentric patriachalism.

I was tempted to stop reading the article because I found it so disturbing. But bravely I struggled on in the hope that perhaps there m...
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