Comments on: Wednesday’s Missing Link

By: tigtog

tigtog — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:38:45 +0000

No worries, Ken. I saw your intent, but recently I’ve seen much clearer (IMO) telegraphing be entirely ignored. I’m probably overly concerned due to lurking in various Stateside blogs where hundreds-strong comment threads are regularly generated by simple misunderstandings.

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:49:35 +0000

tigtog

I assumed it would be clear to readers that it wasn’t you speaking, but to make sure I copied the paragraph before the quote too. Anyway, if any readers were in any doubt you’ve sorted them out!

By: tigtog

tigtog — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:49:26 +0000

Thanks for the link, Ken. I just want to clarify that the bit about “real women” is a quote from a repellent troglodyte, not from me.

The new title for the non-news-politics section is a vast improvement too.

By: James Farrell

James Farrell — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:00:21 +0000

That was a good post from Andrew Elder. I tried to say so on his blog, but there is some strange password system I haven’t seen before. No wonder he gets few comments.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:08:29 +0000

And something you might like to consider for inclusion – a series of excellent recent posts by just-awarded-her-PhD-with-no-corrections dogpossum, writing about history, dance, coolness and the blues.

http://dogpossum.org/archives/2006/12/just_a_couple_o.html
http://dogpossum.org/archives/2006/12/a_long_story_ab.html
http://dogpossum.org/archives/2006/12/hot_and_cool.html

By: Zoe

Zoe — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:20:10 +0000

I think it’s going really well. Certainly pops Crikey’s list right in the shade. I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to “outsource” to you, the way they say they have “outsourced” their economic commentary to the Henry Thornton site.

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:22:34 +0000

Fixed. And the linking error mentioned by Anonymous Lefty, as well as another erroneous link to Blogger on the Cast-Iron Balcony. I guess some such errors are inevitable when you’re trying to digest so much material in such a short time. Keep drawing attention to the mistakes. I need all the help I can get.

By: Sacha

Sacha — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:03:33 +0000

All your houses belong to us – Aaron Hewett reports on the Iemma government’s plans to make the legislative Council “more democratic”

By: MrLefty

MrLefty — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:18:36 +0000

Minor thing – the particular post of mine you’ve linked to under “Pinochet” should probably be under “Citizenship test” instead. Cheers Ken!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:35:47 +0000

I love our Constitution. There is no doubt that I am inspired by it, and by the success it has had, as a Constitution, and engendered, in Australia.

The best piece I found on Pinochet actually came from the mainstream media (but via instapundit, which kinda gets me back in blogger-cred land). Even slightly-lefty mainstream media, to boot!

The stuff about media bias/double standards/whatever is all much of a muchness. First, you could write exactly the same series of pieces about lefty msm ‘dickheads’ (Terry Lane, Ramsey, even Colebatch when he writes about tax reform – btw, what rights does Fairfax give photo contributors?). Secondly, and relatedly, it reads to me as if the point is to demonstrate right-wing bias in the media – a theme beloved to some, I know, but one that anyone interested in productive debate ought to simply abandon. I personally think the media is hopelessly left-biased, but I have given up saying it or arguing it or making anything of it. If you think the media is incompetent, that’s fine (you will often have a good point!) but if you think they are biased, then you can just about be certain that your comments are exclusively for the converted.

By: Gummo Trotsky

Gummo Trotsky — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:38:30 +0000

Heh! Thought that piece on Dorothy Dixers would get you in, Ken.

Just shows to go you what a valuable little service this is – gives us hobby satirists a bit of motivation to give the writing that little bit of an extra polish.

By: cam

cam — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:04:29 +0000

sets himself a logically tough challenge of convincing us that Australians mostly don't even know we have a written constitution but are uninspired by it just the same. That was the Tele article which had that poll, which was from 1987 too, prior to the Republican referendum which had a lot of public focus on the constitution. I think data was cherry picked in the tele article. Macintyre has a point though our constitutional isn't inspirational.