The editorial from the Crikey email today. Just coz I kind of liked this one.
Had Kevin Rudd not had the good fortune to make an advantageous marriage, then we can probably assume that the considerable wealth of his would-be nemesis Malcolm Turnbull could be more of an issue in public discussion than it is.
As things stand, [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Calling the samovar Michael Kroger
October 30, 2008 – 6:29 pm
White supremacy by numbers
October 28, 2008 – 3:02 pm
In all, the two men whom officials describe as neo-Nazi skinheads planned to kill 88 people — 14 by beheading, according to documents unsealed in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.
OK, I’ll bite … how exactly are these numbers significant? Who knew that [...]
Morning commute 28.10.08
October 28, 2008 – 9:34 am
The dollar has all but halved, neo-Nazis are plotting to decapitate sundry black people including a certain Democrat Senator from Illinois and I saw something funny on the train this morning.
I’d never travelled in the carriage set aside for this sort of activity before. But it’s nice to know it’s there.
Thomas Jefferson’s library
October 27, 2008 – 9:34 pm
Thomas Jefferson’s library held 6,487 volumes. In 1814, the 3,000 volumes then held by the Library of Congress were burned by the British. Jefferson sold his 6,487 to the Congress as a replacement. They too were burned in 1851. Read Harper’s and you will know these things.
A thing of beauty is a song forever
October 27, 2008 – 9:44 am
I heard Johnny Cash’s version of this for the first time last night, and it took a moment of two to place it. That’s such a funny sense, that nagging unresolved familiarity. Sort of an “I know that face” feeling. This fits into some general theory of music, how musicality is a notion that can [...]
Mr Henry goes to estimates
October 22, 2008 – 9:51 am
Just watching treasury secretary Ken Henry copping the best that Helen Coonan has to offer in Senate Estimates …. it’s a clash of worlds, Coonan and Abetz grappling for points of pure politics, Henry struggling to keep his feet on a higher plane of policy and decisions. Coonan persists, Henry slaps down … ‘While I [...]
Britt Lapthorne … WTF?
October 20, 2008 – 10:39 am
Am I missing something in the Britt Lapthorne story? Any child’s death is undoubtedly an appalling tragedy for the parents involved …. but candlelit vigils? Public memorial services? Weeks of breathless coverage in the Australian media? Why no state funeral? It’s absurd. It speaks of something grisly and voyeuristic I reckon. Some empty place in [...]
Who, what, when, where and why
October 17, 2008 – 8:35 am
It has, all things considered, been quite the week.
That should clear a few things up. It still seems difficult to comprehend whatever it is that might be happening in economy and politics. Bernard Keane wrote a superb little thing midweek (and I’m not just saying that coz I pay him), ridiculing this collective sense that [...]
Rolling Stone on Palin. Get down.
October 13, 2008 – 8:28 am
Did you read the Rolling Stone Sarah Palin yarn? Zounds!
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she’s a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying [...]
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