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Another Reuters piece : McDonald's has sued one of Italy's top food critics for raking its restaurants over the coals, but the critic says he has no intention of going back on saying its burgers taste of rubber and its fries of cardboard.

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The Tories certainly don't have a monopoly on humourless killjoy politicians. With Simon Crean in the news, however, you don't really need reminding of this. Nevertheless this Reuters story about the WA Labor government provides further confirmation: An Australian state has pu...

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This morning's press conferences were like a plumber's yard pitch session. Kim was concerned at "connection" problems while Simon had major issues with "destabilisation" Both could do you a really good deal on the rectification front. Simon lashed out at those who were - inexp...

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Two of the ozplogosphere's most prominent pseudonymous bloggers, Professor Bunyip and Gummo Trotsky , are having a squabble about stoning adulterous Nigerian women to death. Bunyip reckons Fairfax journo Pamela Bone (and presumably Gummo) is an inconsistent leftie and a willin...

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I apologise to long-suffering Troppo Armadillo readers for the recurring blog access problems experienced today. I must have done something truly appalling to anger the gods of cyberspace to this extent. Being a daily visitor to James Russell's Hot Buttered Death , a fellow re...

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You'd be hard placed to sell Tonga as a believable fictional scenario . An over-populated and under-resourced Polynesian island kingdom presided over by an absolute monarch who combines the strategic skills of Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria with the physique of an aging sumo wrest...

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I've just returned from the International Golden Oldies Rugby Union Festival in Brisbane (I'll try to get around to posting something on ubersport) to find that Ken has been chastised by the cyber fairies for some, as yet undisclosed, transgression against cyberfuddle. I've be...

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This piece by Matt Price in today's Australian was timely, because I too had been wondering about whether "rooster" was such a bad term of reference for a fellow Australian male. In the loose-limbed vernacular circles that I move in, it could almost be heard as affectionate -...

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Former UNSCOM boss Richard Butler has a useful opinion piece in this morning's Australian , observing that the failure so far to find WOMD in liberated Iraq " has led to serious expressions of concern around the world that the rationale for invasion may have been false or fabr...

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I see that Jozef Imrich is also back and blogging after a fairly lengthy hiatus. Jozef has a mostly European focus, combining literary with political interests. Jozef picked up on the same article on academic blogging from Chronicle of Higher Education that I mentioned yesterd...

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Last week's conviction and (weekend) gaoling of flamboyant stockbroker Rene Rivkin for insider trading, and today's conviction and sentencing to one years' imprisonment of Queensland Chief Magistrate Di Fingleton for interfering with a witness, may cumulatively be quite signif...

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Stewart Kelly is a seriously disturbed young man .

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(Via Jack Balkin ) The Chronicle of Higher Education has a feature on academic bloggers . It has a strongly American focus (being a US journal), but is well worth reading. A sample: Mr. Balkin sees this openness and pluralism as a rebuke to the argument posited by Cass Sunstei...

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That respected repository of medical wisdom, the British Medical Journal , has devoted it's current issue to the vexed question of doctor/drug company relationships. One side of this eternal argument insists that the creme de la creme of our great teaching hospitals are but pu...

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I see Scott Wickstein has announced the resurrection of Troppo Armadillo. It might have been better to wait until there was something resembling actual readable content, but que sera sera. Many thanks to Scott for granting a protection visa to this cyberspace asylum seeker, an...

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HI THERE AND WELCOME TO THE FINAL RESTING PLACE of TROPPO ARMADILLO. On first inspection, you may be thinking "Gee this site looks crap". And you'd be right too- it does look a bit like it was put up in a hurry. That is because it WAS put up in a hurry- Ken was making ominous...

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