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• Wednesday Wow: The Wild!

  By tigtog on 2007-08-29 • ( 9 )

  Another photo from the Wow! image pool on Flickr.

• Hippo birdie two ewes

  By tigtog on 2007-08-28 • ( 10 )

  It’s my good friend ohmykozy’s birthday tomorrow (and mine as well). She was out tonight, as was I, watching the eclipse (separately). She took her jazzy camera along, and if you click on the thumbnail below you can have a… Read More ›

• Sea-foam

  By tigtog on 2007-08-27 • ( 3 )

  This picture has generated some talkback radio discussion today: Image Source: Daily Telegraph (photo by Bill Counsell) The picture was taken at Yamba. The sea foam extends 50m across the beach and into the sea from the Surf Lifesavers club… Read More ›

• Predatory corporate capitalism

  By tigtog on 2007-08-27 • ( 3 )

  This is the phrase Robert Jensen (UT Austin) uses to describe our current economic system as not only unsustainable, but inhuman and undemocratic, in Anti-Capitalism in Five Minutes. His goal is to outline to progressives how to discuss radical politics… Read More ›

• Malcolm Turnbull’s environment cred

  By tigtog on 2007-08-26 • ( 2 )

  Helen at Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony has a nice summary of this week’s brouhaha with the Minister for the Environment reacting badly to criticism from a fellow corporatocrat, Geoff Cousins, about the seemingly fast-tracked approvals process for a… Read More ›

• Well done, Virgil

  By tigtog on 2007-08-24 • ( 1 )

  Chris Henning wrote a humorous piece last week speculating on Wikipedia edit wars between the staff of John Howard and Peter Costello. This week we find that parliamentary staff from the PM’s Department actually have been editing articles of interest… Read More ›

• “No one deserves to go to jail just for being a massive dickhead”

  By tigtog on 2007-08-24

  Comedian Dave Hughes’ latest press release, issued in response to Kyle Sandilands threatening to punch him in the throat in revenge for Hughsie calling him a dickhead on air, even if it means Sandilands going to jail, quoted in full… Read More ›

• Budget forecasts from our Treasurer: incompetent or just irrelevant?

  By tigtog on 2007-08-22 • ( 2 )

  Ken L has a post up at Surfdom well worth reading: Headlines you’ll never read Costello budget hopelessly wrong Last May, the government forecast a surplus for 2006/07 of $13.6 billion. Today, it announced that the figure was actually $17.3… Read More ›

• The consideration of active consent and decriminalisation

  By tigtog on 2007-08-22 • ( 3 )

  Two Victorian stories: Rape laws strengthened. VICTORIA’s rape laws will be strengthened to ensure defendants cannot avoid being found guilty by arguing they had not considered whether a victim had consented to sex. Attorney-General Rob Hulls said several new changes… Read More ›

• Bob Brown: the Rudd scandal in perspective and in a nutshell

  By tigtog on 2007-08-20 • ( 8 )

  Four years ago Kevin Rudd got drunk and took himself into a strip club. Four years ago John Howard, sober, took Australia into the Iraq war. I think the electorate can judge which one did the more harm. [Source] Senator… Read More ›