Where There Is No Vision…
At the suggestion of commenter Alex on an earlier thread about the electoral and policy ways forward for the ALP, this is a thread thrown...
Battling Evil in the Bushyverse
America's young conservatives have President Bush confused with Buffy the Vampire Slayer Take the National Review Online's Jonah Goldberg for example. Even conservatives have reason...
Brisbane Bloggers’ Consensus
Or, The End of Empire Part Two John Quiggin has an excellent take on the US Imperial overstretch I commented on in an earlier post.
In Praise of Elites
As Latho multiplies the apologies by adding one to all of us for the Labor Party's latest bout of navel gazing and back biting, finally...
The View from Eveleigh Street
Photo by the Sydney Morning Herald's Dean Sewell. There could be trouble ahead in Redfern. I can remember when, in search of affordable hotel accommodation...
Roses, artichokes and flies..
It's been an amazing spring here in New England. There's been a lot of good rain followed by warm weather, so the countryside looks fantastic--green...
FDR Redux
I don't often agree with observa, a frequent commenter on this and other blogs. However, I was struck with this comment on the Latho thread:...