Completely off-topic but …. ABC-TV’s Four Corners program on Monday evening is “Debtland” – a look at the impact of unrestrained consumer credit, predatory lending, etc. in Australia.

Would someone kindly notify Fyodor that it will be on. Thanks. :-)

Might be time to hang ‘em up, son. Too old, too slow…far too sentimental for the clinical modern game.

1000 a day before brekky for three months still = a draft, y’know.

Hope you’re full of beans, feeling upbeat, remissioning gangbusters.

Coming from one of the lamest of them all.

I know U R but what am I?

Israel has one as well, Minister of the Diaspora, Society, and Fight Against Antisemitism.

That woul be nicely balanced, if it was. I don’t think this is quite remotely the same thing. IIRC the Jewish Diaspora predates Israel by a millenium or so and only very few of them are her expatriates.

That said, I believe Italy has such a post – they even have one or two expatriate seats in the Italian senate.

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and bosses presentation of company accounts

That’s a cheap (and low) shot against bosses! If only politicians were so accountable…

Im outside ur house

Scratchin ur Camry

Coming from one of the lamest of them all.

Gummo is an incorrigible ramper…

OMFG, he’s right. Personally I prefer to think of it as “compulsive” rather than “incorrigible” behaviour.

Anyone know of a good twelve step program?

Which leads me nicely to my next point: the significance of Beethoven in the development of 19th century romantic music is often overrated, don’t you think?

I have seen “Democrat” and “Democrats” all over the media from our own ABC to the Washington Post and also all over U.S. liberal blogs not to mention on the lips of Clinton and Obama themselves, that I did not know “the Democrat convention” (oops even in the Canbrerra Times) carried so much baggage.

Perhaps I should have written the Democrats’ convention.

So, you’ve never been oyster hunting, eh?

Guess we now know where today’s cock-fight is going to happen.

Why not step back for a moment, adopt a mood of sardonic detachment, look at the behaviour of everyone involved, and have a bit of a laugh at the silliness of it all?

Works a charm for me. You should try it sometime.

(parry in quarte, riposte in sexte).

That first link is supposed to be to this post.

You post a link to an interblog conflict, fire up the conflict by using terms from one side of the dispute, participate in the conflict yourself, and now wish the conflict would go away. You can be incredibly lame sometimes, Ken.

Have to agree Tim – it was pretty lame of Ken to leave my comment on the on-line cock fighting scene in today’s ML, when he could have edited it out.

A few more remarks like that and it won’t be long before I get hosed out of the gully-trap.

Missing Link was a useful round up of some of the best writing in the ozblogosphere. Since the new team has come on, it has become something of a gully trap for right wing bagging. There’s a place for that – it’s called Catallaxy – but Troppo is meant to be a genuinely pluralist site, and a thing like Missing Link only works if it doesn’t come to be seen as a fix. Keep it up and it won’t be worth the click.