Easter cartoon via The Art Life. There’s no formatting to get buggered.
And a rather more serious (not to say disgraceful and depressing) story from David Tiley. Anyone care to revisit their opinion about Tony Blair and his leadership qualities?
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Beware of white chocolate eggs! Sometimes they are innocently secreted in bags of proper eggs.
But soy eggs are worse. One year I rushed out late and purchased soy eggs by mistake. Our youngest child who is now 6 feet 4 inches tall still remembers that as the worst thing ever.
Pampered brat.
On the truly alarming David Tilley piece, it is a pity that the left have decided to get moralistic about this issue and the appropriate response would appear to be “a plague on both your houses!”
On the evils that flowed from the Great War (WWI) it just occurs that nightmarish cluster of pseudo-states, alliances, Western interference, broken promises and intrigues in the Middle East were kicked off by Britain and France during the war to get some leverage among the arabs against the Turks.
FMD Rafe, taking a rather long run perspective, aren’t you? Not sure what the ‘treason of Communist intellectuals’ has to do with Iraq, though …
Whatevs, Rafe.
Ken, can I take it that Club Troppo is over its technical wobblies and back in regular business?
“Anyone care to revisit their opinion about Tony Blair and his leadership qualities?”. Nup, but I would like to say I told you so. Three years ago I had him pinned as just another (albeit slightly more feminine) Thatcher http://paulwatson.blogspot.com/2003/08/next-labor-pm-in-australia-will-be.html
while in January, I rather presciently described Blair as “probably the slipperiest
No, it’s still ding strange things. But it will probably be not too bad as long as you don’t use the blockquote tag. For some reason it seems to make the formatting do strange things.
Feel free to post the Waratahs match report. If the formatting buggers up I think I know how to fix most of the problems.
Jason, communists, like children, should be beaten regularly. Even if they have not actually done anything wrong, you know they have probably been thinking about it.
Actually I was thinking of Iraq as long distance fallout from WW1, without reference to communists. Just a thought.
children, should be beaten regularly. Even if they have not actually done anything wrong
yes, well …
Speak gruffly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes.
He only does it to annoy,
And because he knows it teases.
Oops – that should be And Because he knows it teases.
seriously, Rafe, when you stray too far from Popper, you start to sound disturbingly more like Graeme Bird …