Fight Fire with Sapphire!

Fellow travellers, as we all know reich-wingers are the worst trolls in cyberspace.  Their malicious, hate-filled comments infect the blogosphere like carbon dioxide now infects the atmosphere.

So, after a long conversation with Jocelyn, I have decided to do something about this; to fight back somehow -- but in a loving way, of course.  How? By trolling back.  (Although it's not really trolling in this case.  It's actually subverting the dominant paradigm.) 

To see my first victory in this campaign, go here.  Observe how my deconstructive leftist wit makes mincemeat (but not in a carnivorous way) of their hateful abuse of me.  Inspiring, is it not? 

Well, well, well.  The always appalling Andrew Bolt says we should "ban the booze, not the flag". 

The gall and self-RIGHTeousness of the man is just breathtaking, isn't it fellow travellers?  Surely he knows that those thugs at last year's Big Day Out who were forcing people to kiss the flag were doing so not because of alcohol, but because they were all regular readers of his column? 

Still, I don't think the flag should be banned.  It goes without saying that -- being of the left -- I don't believe in censorship of any kind.  I think that people should be free to display the Australian flag, but only on condition that they then promptly burn it.

(And when I say that, I don't mean it in, like, an inflammatory way.) 

The appalling Bernard Slattery manages to simultaneously denigrate women, New Zealanders and non-human persons with this revolting post about a recently banned (and rightly!) advertising campaign.

While reich-winger "Slatts" is a serial offender when it comes to cultural insensitivity, it must be said that he has nothing on the aptly named "Yobbo" who manages to be sexist, racist and lookist every single week!