Fight Fire with Sapphire!

While appalling reich-wingers like Matt Hayden claim that karma doesn't exist, we know that it does, don't we fellow travellers?

Ms Universe will always keep the cosmic scales of justice balanced (but not in, like, a rational way). Take, for instance, the appalling spiritual toxicity produced by Hollywood for many, many years. This makes Ms Universe mad as hell and she's not gonna take it anymore! And so She has decided to do something about it. She has asked her significant other Sister Nature to strike a mighty blow to the heart of that appalling nightmare factory.

And here it is: a massive fire at Universal Studios.

Empoweringly, Sister Nature has added Her own touch to this sassy statement. You see, She has chosen to burn down the huge mechanical model of King Kong.

This was an appallingly speciesist film (and sexist -- why wasn't there a Queen Kong?) which has caused great distress to our simian sisters (and brothers) over many decades. To know that a relic from it is now a pile of ash is heartening to all those who believe in justice.

Smokin'!

Fellow travellers, as you well know appalling reactionaries are fond of denying the link between our -- sorry, their -- appalling consumerist culture and the commodification of women.

Well, if they were to read this story about disturbing harassment of women at Summernats in Canberra then they would have to accept the undeniable truth of our argument. 

Fellow traveller Kevin Rudd has shown he is serious about addressing climate change by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol.  And I hope he will also work at deconstructing the appalling patriarchal, sexist, Gaia-phobic culture that still dominates in this country.  As the Summernats frenzy shows so clearly, oil is at the root of both these scourges. 

He really has no alternative but to ban the use of all fossil fuels immediately.  He'd be killing liberating two birds with one stone, then.