A couple of readers in Australia have chimed in recently. Regarding the "Web of Deception" cartoon about the telcos' Orwellian efforts to take over internet content, Peter writes:

I was particularly humoured by the line they sprouted, "Who should control the future of the internet? The government or the people?". They mean the people, all right, just a very small percentage of them. I first came across this specious line of reasoning many years ago. I live in Australia and back then one of our states (N.S.W) sold off a very efficient and serviceable government owned insurance company. Their main PR line was "giving it back to the people"

So these lingustic shenanigans aren't limited to the U.S. Comforting, isn't it?

Another Aussie, Frederick Chooke, Esq., debonair founder of Frilly Shirt, wrote to point out that he had similar thoughts about impressionist graffiti at the same time I did (see "Aesthetic Movements to Come" cartoon).

Placing low content in a high context may be memorable, for an easy option, but to place high content in a low context is a truly radical act...

Spraypaint a Renoir on a public wall. Perform your favourite opera in a busy shopping strip. Write letters to the editor in verse. Picket a paticularly banal commercial broadcaster in the form of a waltz, demanding Mahler.

I am most impressed with Sir Chooke's web-craftsmanship, and intend to order his Leopard Oil at once.