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Whacking Archive 22-12-02 There is absolutely
nothing to say except click
here.
Another load of bilge in The Independent, brought to us by the very silly Janet Street-Porter, as she recoils in horror from the prospect of constructing more large buildings at the WTC site. You really should read the whole thing, but I had the highlight the conclusion.
No further commentary
required.
Check out this thread at The Independent's discussion boards;
(well the weakest
opponent would be Tuvalu, but why quibble with a writer of such intellectual
depth?) I'm not particularly interested in guns, but I want one of these....
The Barrett M99 .50 Cal single-shot bolt-action sniper rifle. The price? A paltry US$3,300 I wouldn't mind one of these either....
The Barrett M82A1 - a larger, heavier semi-automatic version of the above. All mine for a mere US$7,300 The ultimate politically
incorrect toy. Mwahahaha. Go read Damian Penny's
list of the 12
biggest scumbags of the year.
I'm not a big TV watcher. Let's face it, most TV is shit, and all TV weekly dramas are shit: there's nothing duller than the one-hour-per-week bulk fodder drama. Boring cop shows, soaps, medical dramas...Zzzzzz. You want great stories which get you in the gut, only mini-series or movies can offer them. Well, that's what I thought.
Kiefer Sutherland plays the head of the Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles investigating a death threat against a presidential candidate. This show didn't look that interesting when I started watching it on TV: the "real time" thing looked like a bad gimmick, and it had connotations of the wannabe James Bond "secret agency with kick-ass techno toys" childish garbage we see on shows like Mission Impossible and Alias. Still, after the first two episodes I had to admit the show was pretty damned interesting. Unfortunately, I missed a couple of episodes, and this really isn't the kind of show where you can miss things and pick them up later, so I skipped the rest of the series and decided to wait for the DVDs Well, whaddaya know. The show turned out to be monumental triumph, with none of the predictable flaws of the hour-long TV drama. A brilliantly written, well acted season-long thriller with not a single dud episode in the entire series, which has gotta be a first for TV. Whenever the show looked likely to go into a cliche, it didn't, constantly remaining interesting, tense, fresh and evolving. With the exception of a hammy performance by a well-known actor who appears late in the series, pretty much everything in this series was absolutely spot-on. It's hands-down the best weekly TV drama ever made: it feels like a long mini-series (and yes, that's a compliment), with genuine cinematic scope. I'm also willing to bestow upon it the ultimate compliment: it doesn't feel like a TV drama. I can't recommend it enough. It works better on DVD as well: widescreen pictures, no damned commercial breaks to spoil the tension and a better "flow" between episodes. Don't let anyone give you any details on the plot though. It works much better when you don't know where the show is going. My compliments to
all involved: 24 rocks. Ducati have been testing
their new MotoGP v4 bike at Phillip Island. Some clever git with a video
camera snuck in and videotaped
the bikes. The file is a 4 meg download, and man, those Dukes sound
great.
The Daily Mirror has a deliciously hysterical editorial;
Mmmmkay. Your pixie
dust and incense should be arriving soon...... Tom
and Murray
at Silent Running have a few things to say about some peabrain
academic's opinions on Gallipoli. Aaron Oakley at Bizarre
Science makes an interesting
observation.
Why do most of
the proposed replacements for the WTC look as though they've already been
attacked by terrorists?
This
is funny. Thanks to Carol B. of Maryland for the link.
This has gotta be a joke........
Sound like fun kiddies? Bruce Hill has some
things to say on this subject.
There's an amusing tiff going on at Sasha Castel's site, where a deranged and indignant Jennifer Lopez fan is protesting against Dodgey's characterization of the showbiz queen as a petty, talentless, brain-dead bimbo. Really Andrew, you should be ashamed of yourself (*cough*cough*) Oh, happy birthday
by the way..... INXS' current UK tour is pretty much a disaster. Even without their lead singer offing himself in '97, the band was a creatively spent force over a decade ago, with their audience and musical skills plummeting ever since the "X" album. For gawd's sake fellas,
get out while you still have a few shreds of dignity. A brilliant three-pronged
editorial in The Australian today: criticising the pathetic
appeasers of Islamonazi scum, pouring scorn on the anti-globalism psychos,
and praising Dyson Heydon's appointment to the High Court of Australia.
Former Aus tennis
great and fundamentalist asscow Margaret Court is complaining
about lesbians again. Get a life bitch. Paul
Wright and Muslimpundit?
A child rapist has been awarded $110,000 in general damages for being "deprived of his liberty, mental suffering and humiliation". Oh, and a bunch of
murdering scum have received
almost non-existent sentences for bashing a teenager to death. This
must all be a zionist hoax. Arafat really, really wants peace!!
Another
troubling FrontPage piece.
Samizdata has a great
series of posts going on right now about the "rich are getting
richer and the poor are getting poorer!" squealers. Excellent reading.
From The Guardian today;
File this one under
sure...everything in Africa is the fault of white people. The Australian has a wonderful opinion piece by Janet Albrechtsen on Kate Carnell - former Chief Minister of the ACT and raving loon: A woman with an extraordinary talent to create financial, human and political disasters from nothing. Now she wants a senate seat. God help us.
Amen. Let's hope we've seen the last of this nut-job. Thanks to Alex
Robson for the heads-up. MCJ has some
thoughts on Hollywood's Castro admirers.
Fellow ANU blogger
Alex Robson has
written a solid critique of the current plan for mandatory paid maternity
leave. Sadly, something tells me this stupid scheme is inevitable.
Oooooh, this
will piss a few people off.
Nah, no anti-semitism
here folks. Don't you all read Robert Fisk? It's all the Americans' fault.
Justice Dyson Heydon has been appointed to the High Court of Australia. Naturally, the ABC are horrified. The man could have no better endorsement. Heydon himself has some important things to say about judicial activism;
Amen. Welcome to
the bench sir. The highest court in the land will benefit from your presence. Looking for older whackings? Wanna see my previous rants against lefty, commie, peacenick wankers, plus lots of fun stuff about motorcycles, music and movies?................ Click here for the full past whackings index |
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I've
seen something this week which has blown that theory out of the water.
Last week I purchased the boxed set of 24 - the assassination/action/espionage
thriller where each episode covers one hour of "real time",
and the whole series covers just one day: the day of the California presidential
primary.