Watters Goin’ on ?
My wife and I have been away for a couple of days, far from the madding crowd. We went 250 kilometres down the Stuart Highway...
One for the remainder bin
From my fairly hazy memory of it, Judith Brett's Robert Menzies' Forgotten People ranks as one of the less incisive Australian works of political biography...
Gubernatorial Glutes
The currently on-vacation Andrew Sullivan races back online to share his enthusiasm for Arnold Schwarzenneger's ah....candidacy....and demonstrates that gay bloggers need to be particularly conscious...
Phil does it again
Alfred Einstein? Still it's all relative, I suppose.
Lament of the pygmy shrew
Bali bomber Amrozi's death sentence has generated some strange resonances with the just-concluded Troppo Armadillo debate on Alison Broinowski's ideas about Asian perceptions of Australia....
Cornflakes update
Ian Firns, the courageous (possibly in a Sir Humphrey Appleby sense) contract academic at the centre of the Newcastle University plagiarism cover-up scandal, contributes some...