The Australian has gotten very lazy indeed. In their opinion section they now have a feature they call “Cut & Paste” where all they do is quote disjointed segments from op-ed articles originally published elsewhere – I wonder whether they… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Marry, Shag or chuck off a Cliff: Boots of Revenge & High Adventure edition
aka the Knocking Boots edition, hrarf-hrarf. It’s been more than a month since the last Marry, Shag or Cliff! For this edition we are revisiting some posts I made nearly two years ago now, regarding some of the cheesier celluloid… Read More ›
Otterday
It’s Otterday again! From Cute Otters.
Arsehats of the week
The people posting the image below in discussion forums in response to a new California Supreme Court ruling that laws barring same-sex couples from the institution of marriage are unconstitutional (specifically, that they violated the Californian Constitution’s guarantee of equality)…. Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Natalie Dessay
Today you get a Friday Hoyden and an opera review all tied up into one!
Hee!
One of my Flickrfriends, Mum49, had her camera to hand at exactly the right moment to catch a shot of some very tighty-whiteys outside Myer’s flagship store in Melbourne today. Nice boots, too.
Pity the poor Federal Opposition
The bizarre fixation on the tax hike for ready-to-drink alcholic mixed drinks shows that they haven’t really got a lot to effectively gripe about with the first Rudd Budget, have they? How many of the small number of politics wonks… Read More ›
Autumn in the mountains
Shots from Mother’s Day lunch in the Lower Blue Mountains. Below are close-ups of part of the view from their back verandah. [first image of the series in the Flickrstream] [slideshow] The cold snap the last week and the mellower… Read More ›
More complacent denigration
crossposted at LP Last year Paul Norton wrote with some sadness and much asperity “Is David Burchell brain-dead?” Referring to the particular column which prompted the post, Paul contrasted ex-communist Burchell’s stance with the positions taken by anti-communist Robert Manne… Read More ›
From the mailbag
It’s not all invitations to coffee or ungrammatic hatemail. Sometimes these little notes revive pleasant memories of previous posts, like a nice little alert from someone (doing a systematic search on sites which had referenced them) to an updated URL… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 