Papa et Maman must be proud. Image: REUTERS/Robert Pratta.
Forgive me, but doesn’t this protest against a bill by the French government to legalise same sex marriage and adoption, look a bit, well, gay?
Maybe the Alliance Vita movement has been infiltrated by activists who advised that dudes in silver unitards & cardboard wings is totally the best way to attract the attention of French conservatives.
If that’s the case, fair play to them. It certainly seems to be working…
Image: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters.
If we accepted Vladimir Putin’s suggestion that Pussy Riot’s musical protest “erode[d] Russia’s moral foundation and undermine[d] the country“, it would be pertinent to ask how depriving two kids of contact with their mothers at a crucial point in their development could possibly be constructive in this regard.
However, since most sane people would reject that assertion out of hand, let’s not waste time arguing the point. It’s moot now anyway, since Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova are being shipped off to a prison colony in the Russian hinterland where they will spend their days sewing prison uniforms and learning how to fight murderers.
Which will, of course, benefit Russia’s moral foundation for generations to come.
Image: REUTERS/Mike Segar.
You see that politically insensitive, pensioner exploiting, tax avoiding rich man standing right there?
No… honestly, they’re lovely. Do we not get a car or a speedboat as well though? Image via tumblr.
While unemployment, poverty, fear, helplessness and the dramatic gulf between the haves and the have-nots make for good human interest copy, they’re far less effective at conveying a sense of immediate crisis as pictures of bombings, physical injuries and grieving relatives.
Presumably this is why the Nobel committee saw fit to award their Peace Prize to the European Union. The twin tasks of keeping one’s own nest comfortably feathered while ensuring the Euro doesn’t completely collapse as a result is so time consuming, the powers-that-be in Europe’s omnipotent institution haven’t really got time to be starting any wars.
Feel pissed off about that? You should be grateful. Figuring out how to make twenty quid stretch until next Thursday is better than having your face blown off in a ground conflict.
Or a less immediate route to the same place, anyway.
If you’re the leader of an opposition party, no one would blame you for thinking all your Christmases had come at once if it transpired that a high profile member of the incumbent coalition had been caught sending misogynistic text messages to a colleague and was subsequently accused of sexual harassment.
Expect Australia’s Paul Abbott to be a little more cautious before prodding wounded PM Julia Gillard next time though. During Prime Minister’s Question Time today, Gillard responded to Abbott’s calls for the resignation of Peter Slipper with a flaming of his hypocrisy so comprehensive, it’ll be a week or so before he gets the stink of burning flesh out of his suit.
Slipper has now resigned. After you’ve seen the video, you wonder if anyone actually still cares.
Image: AP Photo/Matt York.
And there was me thinking Boris Johnson was an original thinker.
Clearly his aerial antics at the Olympics a few months ago were a ruse to perpetuate the myth that he’s just a posh, vaguely confused buffer who couldn’t possibly do as much damage in a position of authority as someone with half a brain obviously can.
The truth is, he just nicked the idea off Richard Branson, who was prompting questions about his own rope handling competency as long ago as last October.
Bad Boris! No Downing St for you!
Two months after Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison for performing a punk prayer in a Moscow cathedral, the music community has issued it’s first riposte.
Whether NY art collective MEN, featuring Le Tigre’s JD Samson, will be invited to perform ‘Let Them Out Or Let Me In’ in the same cathedral remains to be seen, but an invite would be a lovely gesture given the Russian Orthodox Church’s recent PR rethink.
Don’t hold your breath, team.
Image: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem.
Given the world we live in, it’s only a matter of time before speculation begins (from those with a specialist news agenda) that these Palestinian kids are training in some new fangled suicide bombing technique rather than practicing Parkour, which is what they’re actually doing.
Best enjoy the pics while you still can do so without questioning your politics, really.
Continue reading “Parkour Paramilitary: A New Kind Of Training Camp”
I played Angry Birds yesterday. Which makes this FEMEN update even more fantabulous, and more importantly, given the subject matter today, re-le-vant. Image via facebook.
I still got annoyed by some stuff though.
That’s multitasking for you.
Kelly Welles 
