http://www.frillyshirt.org Thoughts on Art, Nature, the Fine and the Silly by Sir Frederick Chook, a Colonial Dilettante and Romantic Fop. Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:55:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Politics! Left versus right, yeah? Well, no - I’m sure we’ve all figured out by now that a one-axis scale like ‘left’ and ‘right’ doesn’t actually tell us much - especially when, say, an arch-moralist conservative and an anti-moralist free-marketeer would both be classed as ‘right’. Left and right are ... http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/08/11/left-right-up-down/ I’m not really a writer, as longtime FrillyShirt readers will attest. An essayist, perhaps, of the amateur sort, but when my pen touches fiction, it’s generally in a satirical style - nonsense stories of flying poets and crossdressing superheroes. It’s fun playing with antiquated uses of the English language, too ... http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/07/30/writing-from-the-criminal-side-of-the-brain/ It’s hard to avoid the subject of environmentalism these days - there’s an environmental issue in the news every day, and it’s reached the point where only the lunatic fringe dismiss it as a lunatic fringe issue. As astute readers will be aware, I’m all for it, and think (in ... http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/07/21/hanging-gardens/ A rare political post! I don’t do too many these days. I’ve been thinking, though, about what legitimates power. The answer, in Australia, certainly, is probably compliance with the four European political ideologies - democracy, liberalism, socialism, conservatism. A legitimate government must comply with the wishes of the masses, it ... http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/07/12/making-monarchs-out-of-molehills/