The leadership of the ALP is up for grabs , so why don't I write about a complete irrelevancy? From the same Tim Blair column that Ken Parish links to below : Anyone who picks up Noam Chomsky's latest book probably deserves to have their hands removed. But, since we're still m...
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The Kennedy assassination bores me to tears. So, while I should be studying, I am instead reading some of the various assassination - related articles on wikipedia . I just wanted to know, is anyone aware of who coined the phrase " magic bullet "? The magic bullet is the one t...
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From the New Yorker , some suggested questions for Bush's next press conference: Zen question: "Sir, if the ability of the Star Wars ABMs to hit a nuclear missile is imaginary and the nuclear missiles in Iraq are imaginary, does that mean a Star Wars ABM could hit an Iraqi nuc...
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I'm going to link to that rant by Kim du Toit [via pretty much every blog under the sun, but most recently Gummo's ]. Being a man whose only problem with Queer Eye is that weird thing they have against mono-brows, du Toit's so-called "essay" is the funniest thing I've read in...
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Maybe it's because I should be in bed, having not slept for a while now. I spent all night and all of yesterday finishing an essay for uni, and my mind is a little addled at this point in time. But still, for some reason it feels a little unsettling to find myself in basic agr...
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If you've ever despaired at what passes for political debate in this country, Senator George Brandis' Greens-as-Nazis speech would surely have confirmed your cynicism. I suspect that his attempt to explain himself on last Friday's Lateline will not exactly fill you with hope f...
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I like Bob Brown. I especially like how he manages to drive those who dislike his politics into paroxysms of rage. So yesterday, we learnt from Liberal Senator George Brandis that Bob Brown is objectively pro-fascist [excerpted from yesterday's Hansard ]: I think until fairly...
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Here he is , wondering why those pesky Kurds don't want Turkish troops in Iraq: My old buddies the Kurds, a long-mistreated people we freed from Saddam, are now looking a gift horse in the mouth. I hope somebody explains that American expression about shortsighted suspicion to...
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As others have noted , if that " imminence " business shows anything, it's that George Bush is incredibly careful with what he says. With that in mind, here's some week-old news : Mr Bush rejected claims that torture is being used in the terrorist detention centre at Guantanam...
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Being rather unfamiliar with the whole History Wars imbroglio , it's maybe a little stupid of me to enter the fray, but what the hell. I'm going to make a few observations about the Quadrant article by Keith Windschuttle that Ken Parish linked to below . I should make clear th...
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With news this week that " the Jews rule this world by proxy ", NSW Opposition police spokesman Peter Debnam would like to make you aware of another sinister cabal : There's about a thousand young men, typically between 18 and 30 who are basically running Sydney at the moment,...
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Hello. My name is Roop Sandhu. You might know me as "adam" from the Floating Baby Moses Syndrome . Then again, you might not. In time, I too will take potshots at Alan Cadman . That is all.
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So, people have criticised the decision of the "Coalition of the Willing" to go to war with Iraq. Said criticism is often based on the fact that Iraq did not pose an imminent threat. From this, a conclusion is drawn by some anti-war types that the Coalition misled us, because...
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