The Osama tape
I never believed the hopeful myth that Osama bin Laden was just a smear of DNA in a cave in Tora Bora. I mean, this...
Halloween..
Just a very quick post, to draw attention to Julia Baird's op-ed column in today's Sydney Morning Herald, which quotes yours truly a couple of...
“I am twenty-four and I lost my leg and I don’t know why”
Or so said Second Lieutenant Melissa Stockwell on her return to the States after a routine trip in a Humvee from the Green Zone in...
A Cute Kitten Story
"Cute kittens grow up to be cute cats" writes Arthur Chenkoff. They sure do! Take Private Hammer for example. Hammer is a brave tabby cat...
Elite performance
Troppo is gaining a decidedly genteel, cerebral flavour of late. Nothing wrong with that, but for this Scots-Irish member of the oz trailer-trash class there's...
Two very different reads..
I've been reading two very different, but equally extraordinary books recently. One's a huge, sprawling novel--the amazing first novel of English author Susanna Clarke--'Jonathan Strange...
The trailer-trash factor
Peter Hartcher hypothesises in this morning's SMH that Bush will win next week's US Presidential election despite his poor economic stewardship and a botched occupation...