PUBLISHING AND BEING DAMNED: Brisbane-based University of Queensland Press (UQP) has been hit by more boycotts by authors following its decision to scrap more publications on the eve of their release. Several of UQP’s stable of published writers have declared they would abandon their contracts with the university-based imprint after

The column that has fun with the smaller mistakes and missteps of Australia’s mainstream mediocre; that pays homage to those sweet little fishes that individually don’t amount to a full meal but collectively can cause a tummy upset over the overall state of the once great and noble craft of

IRAN WAR: WASHINGTON DC: The White House has announced a “devastating” medical diagnosis that will prevent US President Donald Trump’s youngest child, Barron, from serving in any military call-up that may be necessary if the war with Iran drags on and requires the deployment of US ground troops. Presidential press

This final look at The Bug‘s Xcrements-of-the-Now-Well-Past Week piggybacks off a recent Media Glass House post (at bottom) that took to task mainstream mediocre platforms claiming Ben Roberts-Smith was Australia’s most decorated LIVING soldier. Note the qualilfying LIVING. That MGH post took exception to that on behalf of Australia’s other

RELIGION: HEAVEN: God Almighty has announced plans to establish two new global organisations in response to ongoing efforts by US President Donald Trump to promote himself and his Make America Great Again agenda by co-opting Christian religious imagery . (main picture) At a news conference at the Pearly Gates the

With the world looking like it’s going to hell in a handbasket, we all need a good laugh. And while by its very nature, the excrement that plops into our putrid Xcrements-of-the-Week prize barrel is often rather distressing – and even funny memes can’t really camouflauge the horrors they are