On sale now: Nike protest wear

As the APEC summit draws closer, posters like these are popping up everywhere in Sydney CBD. I saw these all around the University of Technology, Sydney yesterday. A march for the ouster of John 'Cheney Lite' Howard and The Miserable Failure isn't a surprise, even if The Shrub has enriched the term 'lame duck' with unprecedented lameness and Cheney Lite is being trounced in the polls by Kevin Rudd. But a symposium on how Marx was right about capitalism? Here, in the shopper's Olympia that is Sydney? After the worldwide failure of communism, in which even communist China has embraced capitalism? Aaaah ... the unbridled enthusiasm of Red Bull-charged uni revolutionaries. Marxism endures only as an elective course for guilt-ridden students of privilege, of course, and symposium speakers will no doubt rattle off a variety of anti-America applause lines. Still, it's reassuring to know the uni student tradition of, in the words of James Brown, 'talkin' loud and sayin' nothin'', endures.

A few photos taken yesterday in Kings Cross, Sydney's red light district:
The neighborhood's iconic symbol was saved from demolition years ago by preservationists who insisted Kings Cross was identified by this giant billboard for a US cola. Times Square, it ain't.
Pigeons are second bananas in this town.
Fuhgeddaboudit!