April, 2010

Not before time, the weekend open thread is here. May 1st is Free Comic Book Day, so it’s worth having a look to see if there’s an outlet near you who’s participating. Avagoodweekend. Update: There you go, only three attempts needed to get the date right.

Some of the most fascinating things about the articles from out favourite opinionistas are not actually written down, but in the amazingly inconvenient gaps in logic that they shuffle around. A perfect example of that Janet Albrechtsen’s call to arms over the evils of proportional representation. Their next line of attack against democracy may come [...]

News Ltd objects to schools “indoctrinating” students* – by which they mean, countering the indoctrination their media empire has been busy inculcating in the students’ parents: STUDENTS are being directed to pro-asylum seeker websites and encouraged to create political campaigns in a new multicultural agenda for state schools. A Victorian resource kit urges students to [...]

Former Daily Telegraph editor David Penberthy reads a new report (to which he doesn’t link) that seems to confirm what his former paper is always telling people: The April 2010 survey shows that we aren’t tossing and turning at night worrying that we are going to lose our jobs because of the lingering after-effects of [...]

It’s the open thread, freshly baked for another week. One of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time is the saga surrounding Gizmodo’s purchase of a lost iPhone prototype. The latest chapter has seen police seize the computers of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, which has unleashed a new sideshow about whether or not [...]

Here’s a thread for the ANZAC Day weekend. No Insiders this week with the march on Sunday morning; Mike Bowers reports that Barrie will host a UK election special the following weekend. Happy 50th, Nancy.

Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt on: climate change: we shouldn’t do anything until we’re ABSOLUTELY 100% CERTAIN we’re causing it, as in, if it actually begins and it’s too late to do anything about it. swine flu: we shouldn’t really bother with it until a large number of people have contracted a highly infectious disease [...]

That prison killing that happened the other day? The man who was left bleeding and dying for 20 minutes after the assault? Who appears to have been killed because he was finally helping police? Something to cheer, according to the warrior from Southbank: Show his pretty face now LET’S see that famous “baby face” now. [...]

A little over a week ago, Jeremy noted the video released by Wikileaks under the title “Collateral Murder”, and the claims by some commentators that media outlets were swallowing an “already-discredited lie” about “wicked US troops”. Today, Wired has published an interview with a US soldier who was on the ground during the helicopter gunship [...]