How to Write: The Andrew Bolt Way

For the 9 or so people reading this from elsewhere in the world, Australia has a pundit named Andrew Bolt. He writes for Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper. Like conservative pundits everywhere, he's there to push a contrarian agenda. It's not about facts or right and wrong for Andrew, it's purely about left and right. Right is good, noble and pure. Left is corrupt, whiny and stupid.

Well, for this post I thought I'd give socially awkward mouth-breathers everywhere a helping hand on their road to professional punditry, and teach you to write like Andrew Bolt. To keep things timely and topical, I have chosen for this lesson, Andy-Pandy's recent article on the re-election of Barack Obama.

Warning: Andrew's article contains about as much white entitlement whining as this page does but in written form.

A walk in someone else's shoes

In a first world democracy, you get comfortable, protected by enshrined laws and rights that protect your dignity, your freedom of expression. This can blind you to the fact that elsewhere, things are not quite so rosy. Amnesty International have recently released a Facebook app that scans your timeline and tells you how many times you may have been incarcerated, tortured or beaten for your opinions or actions in other parts of the world. It's well worth a look if you're on Facebook. Link.

See my results after the jump.

A policy

I've been away from the blog for a long time, and have only come back to it because of a comment out of the blue on an article many months old. After a long and surreal back and forth, I've decided to introduce a comments policy. And here it is...

He's got a fan club that one

It's funny, call someone out as a homophobe, and all the weird folk come creeping out of the woodwork with bananas arguments to justify the original word or deed of hatred.

I've got a few real class acts here.

It's been a while

I've been absent from the blog for a good long time, sadly the world continues to be replete with dickery regardless.

This post concerns recent protests in Sydney and the US in response to some dicky film that poked fun at Islam. I want to find a middle point between the us and them that has characterised most responses.

The madness deepens

It has been a good while since I posted here with any regularity. Part of it was a need for a break, a de-tox from global horror, and part of it was a plethora of topics to cover. Even my latest post, the thing on Kony and Invisible Children seems like an age ago, so fast do events move these days.

Today however, I'm going to return to an old favourite - the study of conservative thinking.

Kony, the LRA and Invisible Children

I've been a bit lax on this blog lately (the unmanageable kerfuffle called 'life' getting in the way) but this is something I really should discuss. If you in any way interact with the broad social networking/blogosphere arena, then you've probably heard about the 'KONY 2012 Invisible Children' campaign. If you want to know what's going on, having heard coflicting opinions, then see more after the jump.