Monthly Archives: February 2004

“The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.” Omar Khayyam When Alexander Downer bustles … Continue reading →

Here’s dear old John Ray – the curmudgeonly crowd’s favourite psychologist – offering a free and unsolicited appraisal of Andrew Sullivan: “Keith Burgess-Jackson and many other conservatives have been appalled at Andrew Sullivan’s extreme, irrational and hysterical reaction to GWB’s … Continue reading →

The Hon. MICHAEL COSTA: This censure motion is a joke, just like everything else that Opposition members do in this House. I have absolute contempt for Opposition members because they are lazy, they do not produce policies and they do … Continue reading →

Look, I know I’m going on about it, but this piece (from grudnuk via Tim Dunlop) is an eloquent (if slightly tear-jerking) testament to the human dimension of gay coupling that ideological theorising across the battlelines, kind of misses. Now … Continue reading →

Everyone has seen it. Cardinal Pell has seen it and warmly recommends it’s age-old message: flagellation is more redemptive than wearing a hair-shirt any day. The Holy Father has seen it and may – or may not – have observed … Continue reading →

Some one in the Labour party must have read my Post about financial literacy (probably some one in the party here in the Territory, I understand that Ken’s blog has become compulsory reading for NT party apparatchicks ) and, following … Continue reading →