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  • The irrational electorate and economics

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    Ross Gittins today in the SMH, regarding the bewilderment of the Howard government’s economic-rationalism ideologues as to why we sheeple aren’t more happy about the wonderful economy: It’s not only the economy, stupid Gittins points out that growth in real… Read More ›

  • Pell draws lines

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    The great tradition of religious tolerance in Catholic parochial schools in New South Wales is under fire. Many thousands of children of all faiths have been educated in a system often chosen by parents due to a complex perception of… Read More ›

  • We’ve gone over to the yellow side

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    Images generated by The Simpsonizer. I couldn’t get the software to play nice and generate a background picture that I could put the whole family into (unlike Lauredhel’s effort), but here we are as icons at least.

  • I love the smell of desperation in the LibNats

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    Y’know, it’s one thing to express doubts about how long the fairly bland Kevin Rudd can continue to successfully present himself to the electorate as an exciting breath of fresh air. It’s another thing entirely to call the man “a… Read More ›

  • Hey, we can say it

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    An attack has been made on the Australian media from the front page of Life Decisions International (LDI), whose domain name is the far more accurate fightpp.org (PP being the USA’s Planned Parenthood, the family planning organisation that offers comprehensive… Read More ›

  • Timewaster of the weekend

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    Created using the HeroMachine Superhero Generator

  • Soundbites on YouTube

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    Politicians around the world are gingerly using YouTube to make policy statements, or maybe just to get their soundbites out there while avoiding having to have a press conference. Now some Catholic seminarians have parodied the Mac vs PC ads… Read More ›

  • Nassssty sysssssstem, we hatesssss it we does

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    Why on earth would a telco have an online registration system for prepaid SIM cards which doesn’t accept street numbers with letters (eg 29B) or hyphenated surnames? And why on earth would a telco with such a bizarre system then… Read More ›

  • Applying Bill of Ockham’s sharp thing

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    Carey Roberts, a withered geriatrarch of the he-man-she-haters club, is once again complaining that women are meanyheads: in Misandry in the least likely of places Roberts clutches his pearls over the lyrics of a Country song about a revenge scenario… Read More ›

  • Insert tinnie/tinnie joke here

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    The Indigenous Affairs Minister, Mal Brough, has announced an exemption to the alcohol bans in 70 remote indigenous communities in the NT that were announced as a core component of the government’s Indigenous Emergency Plan to combat the sexual abuse… Read More ›