I have a theory here, that we will know that true change has come with the new team when the White House becomes an all Mac operation.
Tag Archives: obama
Ich bin ein Obama …
January 22, 2009 – 8:17 am
… or something like that. A little amazing to see the total suspension of disbelief in the Australian press, with even the crusty ideo-warriors at the Oz grounding arms to applaud seemingly quite rapt. This truly does seem to be a moment, one that gives a new and suddenly hopeful context to our own slightly [...]
The Trig perplex
November 24, 2008 – 4:02 pm
There are moments as an editor – I’ve had a few – when you realise you’ve made a bad, bad call. This happens as often through the things you miss, or stumble over, or fail to give appropriate attention to, as it does thanks to the things you do resolutely, but wrongly, on purpose.
Crikey – [...]
Meanwhile, somewhere in Afghanistan …
November 6, 2008 – 2:59 pm
Of all the hundreds of images in dozens of photogalleries published in this post-Obama world, this single frame from deep in the Huffington Post struck me as having a grounding poignancy. Somewhere in Afghanistan, US soldiers watch the election of their new commander in chief.
Morning commute 6.11.08
November 6, 2008 – 8:34 am
7.50am. Degraves St Subway out of Flinders Sty Station, Melbourne. Barack Oabama is president. We all decide to go off to work regardless.
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.
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