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Missing Link Daily

Ken Parish
March 27, 2008March 27, 2008
A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne,...
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Tampa refugees also rise

Nicholas Gruen
March 27, 2008
A few years ago I sponsored a bunch of Afghani kids on a soccer playing tour of Queensland and NSW. It was a privilege to...
Politics - international

Hus in charge

Seamus C
March 26, 2008March 27, 2008
In the furore that has broken out over Chinas crackdown in Tibet, Ive been surprised that so little has been said about President Hu Jintaos...
Sport - rugby

Search for an intelligent ex-front rower

Ken Parish
March 26, 2008March 26, 2008
For rugby fans who've been watching with increasingly frustrated bemusement Ewen McKenzie's bizarre coaching of the NSW Waratahs to play stereotypical 10 man rugby despite boasting...
Missing Link Uncategorised

Missing Link Daily

Ken Parish
March 26, 2008March 27, 2008
A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne,...
Climate Change

Anti-warming nonsense neutered

Ken Parish
March 25, 2008March 26, 2008
For some reason, Saint decided to include an anti-global warming rant in today's Missing Link.  It's part of an "interview" between warming denialist Institute of...
Missing Link Uncategorised

Missing Link Daily

Ken Parish
March 25, 2008March 25, 2008
A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae,  Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose,  Tim Sterne,...

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