The following smear of hypocrisy works much better if you don’t click through to the link that contradicts it: But the Left won’t vilify Gillard for locking up more children than Howard But the “refugee” lobby that so vilified John Howard says almost nothing against Julia Gillard: JULIA Gillard is locking up more than 1000 [...]
READ MOREJanuary, 2011
Democracy is hard.
There’s one glaring problem with believing in individual rights, you need to extend them to people who you may not like. That seems to be troubling a few members of the commentariat who are running an eye over the events in Egypt. Freedom in Egypt means also freedom for extremists “Be careful of what we [...]
READ MOREOpen thread January 31 – February 4
January’s all but gone, the tennis is over, school has started and it’s still getting hotter. Take a trip to the water cooler and when you get back, say hi in this week’s open thread.
READ MORECryptic cross words
I’m trying to figure out quite what the hell this post on news.com.au is actually about: Wait until they get around to Jaffas Not just bigotted [sic] but ignorant: The writer at Rupert’s site then quotes these lines from a story about a Greens councillor objecting to Coles mislabelling fruit as “product of Australia” when [...]
READ MOREEgyptian protests
Ongoing turmoil in Egypt, including the government almost completely cutting off internet access for the entire country, in order to make it harder to organise protests. This is the place to discuss developments. UPDATE: BBC live news feed of events. Al Jazeera English live feed. (Thanks to Confessions for the video links.)
READ MOREWeekend Talk Thread 28-30 January 2011
You asked for it, and here it is: an open thread for this weekend! All shiny and comment-ready. Enjoy.
READ MOREA repulsive, stupid Godwin
Following the news that a council in the UK is considering reusing energy from a crematorium to heat a public swimming pool, a contemptible columnist in Southbank tries to draw an equivalence between those attempting to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and – seriously, and I almost cannot believe he wrote this – the [...]
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Does News Ltd not understand what “one-off” means?
Okay, so obviously News Ltd is undertaking an impressively comprehensive campaign against any sort of flood levy, and working hard to make excuses for those worried that objecting to helping out their countrymen might make them seem stingy and, given how sympathetic towards Queenslanders’ suffering they claimed to be earlier, hypocritical. (Who knew that helping [...]
READ MOREAndrew Bolt, the battlers’ friend
What’s got the Herald Sun’s public finance expert, Andrew Bolt, hot under the collar about the Federal Government’s flood reconstruction levy? If we’re all in this together, how come only the rich pay? …earn well and you’ll be robbed blind by a government that’s less Robin Hood than Al Capone. Oh no, poor, poor rich [...]
READ MOREYes, but what’s her star sign?
This headline from today’s Australian regarding Tasmania’s new premier speaks for itself: Leftist Lara Giddings still looking for Mr Right LARA Giddings says she still hopes to meet the “right man” but for now she’s happy to give all her time to being Tasmania’s first female Premier. Cosmo The national broadsheet is right. The first [...]
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