The Creator, alas, has limited access to the Internet due to the ineluctable laws of the Universe (see that fraud St Augustine for details). Someday, all will be perfected. Meanwhile, here is an incomplete list for your amazement.
BLOG001 Lovin’ Can’t Pay My Bills. (Introduction, and about how capitalist development cannot save the country.)
BLOG002 Is Jacob Zuma Really A Bad Guy? (Overview of Zuma’s background
BLOG003 But then how did Zuma get there? (Overview of where the Zuma faction comes from.)
BLOG004 Why Hate Israel, Anyway? (Thoughts on Palestine, etc.)
BLOG005 The Complexities of Racism. (Response to a silly racist on the Mail and Guardian blog)
BLOG006 The Powers Behind the Press. (Thoughts on the centralisation and dishonesty of the press.) 26/02/08
BLOG007 The Magic of the National Budget. (Some ideas on how to learn from the Budget.) 28/02/08
BLOG008 Madisha and the Decline of the Left. (Notes on Zuma’s impact on trade unions and the SACP.) 28/02/08
BLOG009 Zimbabwe’s Ruination. (About Zimbabwe’s economic crisis and possible causes.) 03/03/08
BLOG010 A Modest Phillippic. (Complaining about likely conditions under Zuma.) 03/03/08
BLOG011 Why a Political Web-Log? (Discussing what possible motives could exist for rambling on the Web about politics.) 11/03/08
BLOG012 The Merchants of Death and the Bodyguard of Lies. (Discussing the great Arms Deal.) 11/03/08
BLOG013 Oh Joy, Another Crisis of Capitalism! (About why, even if this is a crisis of capitalism, it shouldn’t be welcomed.) 11/03/08
BLOG014 Supposing South African Socialism? (I) (The problems of setting up a South African socialist party.) 12/03/08
BLOG015 Another Weary, Turgid, Foul Election Rigmarole. (Notes on the American election.) 13/03/08
BLOG016 Reconsidering the Elite Transition Model. (First criticisms of Patrick Bond’s idea.) 18/03/08
BLOG017 Supposing South African Socialism? (II) (Ideas about how a South African socialist party might evolve its preliminary policy.) 19/03/08
BLOG018 Iain M Banks: Imperialist Propagandist? (Reading Culture texts as excuses for the West.) 22/03/08
BLOG019 The Power-Crazed Loonies. (The possibility that ESCOM was manipulating the power crisis for its profit.) 22/03/08
BLOG020 The Soul of Liberalism Under Apartheid. (Discussing why liberalism under apartheid was less impressive than it looked.) 22/03/08
BLOG021 Scorpions for Dinner. (Explaining why the Scorpions should not be disbanded, but also why a lot of people are lying about the issue.) 24/03/08
BLOG022 The Soul of Liberalism After Apartheid. (Discussing why liberalism after apartheid failed so calamitously.) 24/03/08
BLOG023 South Africa: Satellite of the American Empire? (Explaining why it isn’t, and those who say it is are wrong.) 24/03/08
BLOG024 An Anti-Politics Machine. (Discussing why NGOs are often opposed to real political action, citing the TAC as an example.) 27/03/08
BLOG025 Good Men Down. (Mourning the death of Mr. Zulu and Ivan Toms.) 27/03/08
BLOG026 Does Whiteness Make You Stupid? (Criticising Frederick van Zyl Slabbert’s book The Other Side of History.) 02/04/08
BLOG027 Zimbabwe — The Galaxy Holds Its Breath. (Discussing the Zimbabwean elections and responses to these.) 13/04/08
BLOG028 John Ralston Saul Does The Globe. (Assessing flaws in Saul’s book on globalisation.) 13/04/08
BLOG029 ANCYL: Corruption and Decay. (Noting Fikile Mbalula’s plagiarised essay and suggesting this as a metaphor for the ANCYL Congress.) 13/04/08
BLOG030 Funhouse With No Exit. (Complaining about the situation in which people are so frequently lied-to by the media and public officials.) 15/04/08
BLOG031 The Hamsters Flex their Mighty Biceps. (Noting that trade unions were making demands and calls which they seemed to neither understand nor have power to accomplish.) 16/04/08
BLOG032 A Bag of Broken Glass. (Observation that South Africa remains a shattered society.) 17/04/08
BLOG033 The Present Danger. (Discussion of the global threats and how they ultimately are not being addressed by capitalist society.) 20/04/08
BLOG034 How the World Got Lost. (Suggestion that there were various “turning points” in the last 50 years when the present danger became more likely.) 23/04/08
BLOG035 When Opportunism Knocks, Is It On Your Head? (Discussion of the political dangers and advantages of building fronts with forces like Islamic rebels.) 24/04/08
BLOG036 Hoping For The Worst. (Criticism of John Pilger’s attacks on post-apartheid South Africa.) 25/04/08
BLOG037 Of Human Bondage. (Criticism of Bond’s first South African book, responding to Bond’s criticism of the Pilger post.) 26/04/08
BLOG038 Master Class with Gordon and Jacob. (Imaginary conversation between Zuma and Brown in 10 Downing St.) 28/04/08
BLOG039 The Word of the Bond. (Criticism of Bond’s Elite Transition and of his general political standpoint.) 28/04/08
BLOG040 Supposing South African Socialism? (III) (Suggestions on how South Africa might have evolved after 1960 had it sought to be a socialist state.) 02/05/08
BLOG041 On Reading Propaganda. (I) (Criticising a Christopher Hitchens article on Zimbabwe.) 01/05/08
BLOG042 On Reading Propaganda (II). (Criticising a Mark Gevisser article on Zimbabwe.) 03/05/08
BLOG043 Teach Your Children Ill. (Discussing the problems of South African education.) 05/05/08
BLOG044 A Brief Response to Dr. Patrick Bond. (And then, no more.) (Explaining why Bond is not worth talking to.) 8/05/08
BLOG045 Watching Things Fall Apart. (Challenging the press spin on Khampepe and Pikoli.) 10/05/08
BLOG046 Is This House Falling? (The rise of the European right.) 12/05/08
BLOG047 Rolling Back the Right Wing. (I) (The structure of a left-wing political party and why it sucks.) 13/05/08
BLOG048 Your Beloved Government In Action. (Why neoliberal governments do not help people in crisis.) 14/5/08
BLOG049 Rolling Back the Right Wing. (II) Technique du Coup d’Etat. (How to build a power-base in another organisation) 15/5/08
BLOG050 Rolling Back the Right Wing. (III) Rantin’ ‘Bout A Revolution. (Why revolution is not necessarily desirable, even if it were possible.) 16/5/08
BLOG051 On-line, on-message, out of touch. (Why the Net is not the perfect place for politics.) 18/5/08
BLOG052 Of Plunder, Rapine and Murder. (Response to the anti-foreigner attacks.) 22/5/08
BLOG053 Rolling Back the Right Wing (IV). But what are we supposed to do? (The case for activism and electoral participation by small parties.) (26/5/08)
BLOG054 Where Have All Poppa’s Heroes Gone? (The failure of patriotism and the swelling of corruption.) 27/5/08
BLOG055 Confusion Now Hath Made His Masterpiece. (The absurdity of contemporary ANC politics.) 03/6/08
BLOG056 Some Of Our Failures. (Diatribe against AZAPO and the PAC.) 06/06/08
BLOG057 The Rich Are Eating Us. (On the food crisis.) 28/6/08
BLOG058 Zimbabwe in Crisis, Pope Still Catholic, Bear Crap Found in Woods. (Expressing annoyance at Zimbabwe.) 20/7/08)
BLOG059 How Does It Feel To Be Such A Freak? (I) (Discussing people who persuade themselves that Zuma deserves support, such as Saunderson-Meyer.) 20/7/08
BLOG060 Dissing Cape Town’s Topia. (About Lauren Beukes’ Moxyland.) 24/7/08
BLOG061 A Confession. (About why the Avusa group don’t really support Zuma.) 26/7/08
BLOG062 How Does It Feel To Be Such A Freak? (II) (Talking about other people who persuade themselves that Zuma deserves support, such as Ben Turok.) 26/7/08
BLOG063 On On Bullshit. (Or, “Ich bin ein Frankfurter!”) (Frankfurt, bullshit and how the book works.) 31/7/08
BLOG064 Caucasian Roulette. (The Russian operations in Georgia and what they mean.) 14/8/08
BLOG067 Not In My Mama’s Name. (Mama Mia and what it means) 01/09/08
BLOG068 Little Criminals. (The necessary compromises of practical politics.) 01/09/08
BLOG069 Calling It For Obama. (Why Obama will win and why this is not a good thing.) 02/09/08
BLOG070 2009: An Electoral Odyssey. (The probable negative consequences of the 2009 election for the ANC.) 04/09/08
BLOG071 Ex Africa, Semper Big Bucks Novi. (What the impending economic depression means for Africa.) 11/09/08
BLOG072 They Had Given All They Had For Something New. (Analysis of COSATU’s economic policy.) 15/09/08
BLOG073 Anal Ysis. (Discussion of Judge Nicholson verdict on Mbeki.) 15/09/08
BLOG074 This Long Disease. (The likely problems with the Jacob Zuma government.) 30/09/08
BLOG075 Statues Made Of Matchsticks (The collapse of the Mbeki government.) 01/10/08
BLOG076 The Brown Wedge Invades The Red Square. (Fascist tendencies in the Zuma regime) 17/10/08
BLOG077 Down, Down, Down You Go. (Collapse of the global economy.) 08/10/08
BLOG078 Tony Brink, Ron Roberts, and the Madness of our Lords. (AIDS absurdities.) 11/10/08
BLOG079 Such are the Rewards of Moral Degeneracy. (The obvious problems of growing public dishonesty.) 18/10/08
BLOG080 “Fuck You.” (Cutting off funding for the AIDS project.) 20/10/08
BLOG081 Analysing Raymond Suttner. (Assessment of Suttner and his ideas on politics.) 29/10/08
BLOG082 Welcome to the Desert called Utopia. (The disastrous present socio-human situation.) 30/10/08
BLOG083 The God That Failed. (Incomplete.)
BLOG084 The Obamanable Truth. (President Obama and why he is not the Messiah.) 06/11/08
BLOG085 Back to the Future Election. (Revisiting the idea of the election with CoPe in mind.) 15/11/08
BLOG086 The “Normalization” of South African Politics. (How South African politics became as bad as politics elsewhere.) 17/11/08
BLOG087 American Graffiti. (The US in Africa and Somalia.) 07/12/08
BLOG088 Our Sick Doctors. (The campaign against Manuel and why it was spurious) 06/12/08
BLOG089 The Springtime of Our Decay. (Incomplete — essay on inept response to Israel’s attack on Gaza.) 05/01/09
BLOG090 A Thought Experiment on Israel. (General discussion on Israel/Palestine.) 09/01/09
BLOG091 How Sweet It Tasted! (American economic situation in the Obama era.) 04/02/09
BLOG092 Theorizing CoPe. (Analysing what CoPe stands for and how it might succeed.) 05/02/09
BLOG093 On Thermonuclear War. (Why it has become much more likely in the twenty-first century) 07/02/09
BLOG094 The Pity of Toryism. (John Charmley’s errors.) 10/02/09
BLOG095 The Fooling Class. (The existence of a South African ruling class.) 20/02/09
BLOG096 Bombard the Headquarters! (How to destroy the ruling class.) 21/02/09
BLOG097 Economy Cancelled Due To Lack Of Interest. (The paradoxical benefits of usury for South African finance.) 21/02/09
BLOG098 La Folies Zimbabwienne. (The distortions around the sad situation in Zimbabwe.) 03/03/09
BLOG099 Pop! (The bursting of the first Obama financial bubble.) 06/03/09
BLOG100 The Day After Election Day . . . (The likely consequences and probable results of the impending election.) 08/03/09
BLOG101 Zuma’s Future Effect on the State. (The further implications of that election.) 14/04/09
BLOG102 The Poisoned Wellsprings of Social Debate. (Why it is so hard to intellectually challenge Zuma.) 14/04/09
BLOG103 When you asked me how I’m doing, was that some kind of joke? (Parody of “Desolation Row”.) 15/04/09
