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Open thread November 23-27

November 23, 2009 – 1:15 pm

Another week, another open thread. Use this to discuss anything that doesn’t fit with any of our posted topics. As always, the latest open threads will be available from the sidebar.

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Weekend talk thread November 20-22

November 20, 2009 – 8:15 am

Let’s kick the weekend off early with a fresh open thread to discuss the weekend’s news and activities. Remember that the links to the current open threads are always available in the sidebar to the right of the page.
We’ll update with details about TV programming for political tragics as they come to hand.
Also, just a [...]

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A fresh climate thread

November 19, 2009 – 4:53 pm

Since the previous post kicked off a busy discussion about climate change, let’s give it its own thread. Any topics on climate science, government policy and media reporting are welcome.

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Let’s clear up a few things: A response to Andrew Bolt

November 18, 2009 – 5:31 pm

In a post about Crikey editor Jonathan Green’s appointment to a new editorial position at the ABC, Andrew Bolt inserted an update that included the following:
I’d also urge the ABC to be very careful of Green’s quality control over his writers and blog readers. I was forced recently to write the following to his boss, [...]

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All adrift on asylum seekers

November 18, 2009 – 10:25 am

The Australian is giving it to Kevin Rudd over the Oceanic Viking today, and not without reason. I tend to agree with Dennis Shanahan and Paul Kelly – of course there was a special arrangement, and for Rudd to try to hold a line of denial on that point is a ridiculous attempt at impression [...]

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Woe is me!

November 17, 2009 – 1:31 pm

Here we go again:

You’d think someone who can get 3000 people to sign his politically motivated petition in no time and who regularly gets to appear on all media outlets including the (biased!) ABC would cheer up and feel a little less like the world is out to get him.

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Interpreting the Classics

November 16, 2009 – 12:15 pm

David Burchell’s tenuous and largely incoherent column evaluating Kevin Rudd through the prism of Homer’s epic tales has me thinking – what other tenuous links can we build between the classics and contemporary Australian politics? Let’s use this thread to connect literary tales, themes and characters with our modern-day leaders. Here’s my opening effort:
Antony and [...]

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Open thread November 16-20

November 16, 2009 – 10:30 am

Another week, another open thread. Use this to discuss anything that doesn’t fit with any of our posted topics. As always, the latest open threads will be available from the sidebar.

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These readers and critics won’t let me be, Lord have mercy on me

November 16, 2009 – 6:32 am

When reading Andrew Bolt’s blog over the past month or so, I haven’t been able to get this song out of my head:

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Consensus reaffirmed

November 12, 2009 – 9:50 pm

A few months ago:
Andrew Bolt proclaims a “new consensus” on global warming. His evidence?
More than 50 physicists, including a Nobel laureate and many others prominent in their field, have signed a new petition warning against the great warming hoax

This week:
The Council of the American Physical Society has overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to replace the Society’s [...]

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