those who fail to learn the lessons of history

Is the government doomed to repeat the lesson Paul Keating and the ALP received in 1996? This article is certainly cause for reflection: a summary of the major newspapers’ views on the parties leading into the 96 election.…

little girls deserve cancer because I’m uncomfortable with sex

This story is a typical example of the amazing moral contortions that reactionary social conservatives seem to be able to perform to justify interfering with, and indeed harming, others to satisfy their own arbitrary and irrational beliefs.

As…

cold november rain

It sounds very much like we will be having a federal election in November, which is no great surprise. It’s interesting to reflect for a moment on why the hell we have a system in which…

city’s just a jungle

Here are some fantastic photos of Yokohama, Japan at night.

it had to be howled on the streets by newsboys to bus conductors

Seemingly out of the blue, Australia’s main media outlets have actually agreed on something other than money and their desire for more money, and have got together to launch a campaign called “Australia’s Right to Know.” The focus of the…

great moments in on-line publishing history

For a glorious, and no doubt brief, moment today, the International Herald Tribune displayed this uncannily accurate headline on one of it’s lead stories:

The article is/was on-line here. Don’t…

desiccated coconut redux

Following on from our former PM’s recent comments in the media (Costello is “all tip and no iceberg” and the PM is a “desiccated coconut“), a friend points to this great site, which contains…

punchbowls so large that ducks could swim around in them

There’s nothing worse than waking up in the morning with no memory of the previous evening only to find you’ve founded an independent nation during a drunken rampage. Reading this NY Times book review I came across an…

best headline ever?

Also takes the prize for weirdest criminal behaviour ever:

link.