Monthly Archives: March 2004

Taxing lies

Posted on March 31, 2004 by Ken Parish

Geoffrey de Q Walker is a conservative legal academic for whom I usually have a fair amount of respect. However, his opinion piece in today’s Australian, claiming that Australia’s tax system undermines the rule of law, does nothing to enhance … Continue reading →

Posted in Law | 12 Comments

Blogging About Not Blogging

Posted on March 26, 2004 by Geoff Honnor

I’m not currently blogging – you didn’t notice? Oh. Anyway it’s terrific that Ken is blogging. The reason I’m not blogging is pretty much directly related to a deadline drawing ever closer. Early next week I’m due to deliver a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Taxing times

Posted on March 26, 2004 by Ken Parish

Jason Soon has lost no time in taking advantage of the Movable Type extended page facility at Catallaxy’s new home. He’s posted a long-ish rant about the benefits (and to some extent the problems) of a flat tax system. I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics - national | 3 Comments

Grace unexpected

Posted on March 25, 2004 by Ken Parish

I’ve never been much impressed by Mel Gibson, either as an actor or a man. Moreover, the manufactured controversy over his Passion of the Christ didn’t exactly fill me with joyful anticipation at the prospect of going to see it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Life | 30 Comments

Pathetic old cow

Posted on March 24, 2004 by Ken Parish

Robert Corr sums up my attitude to Germaine Greer’s latest repugnant attention-seeking effort in the Sydney Morning Herald, about footballers and gang rape. I just chose to ignore the pathetic old cow to avoid gratifying her increasingly pathological desire to … Continue reading →

Posted in Print media | 10 Comments

A Lott of shit (as usual)

Posted on March 24, 2004 by Ken Parish

You’d have to wonder why a prestigious national broadsheet newspaper like the Australian would give column space to an utterly discredited shyster like US pro-gun “academic” John Lott Jnr. Have a read of the redoubtable Tim Lambert’s blog if you … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics - national | 15 Comments

Vile, vile, pedophile

Posted on March 23, 2004 by Ken Parish

What do these 2 stories from today’s media have in common? Escaped pederast gets 4 months A CONVICTED pedophile claimed he had turned his life around after realising his “abhorrent tendencies” needed to be channelled into creative activities, a Perth … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments