media spin

a red/white/blue poster done in the style of the Barack Obama "Audacity of Hope" posters. The image is of Tony Abbott, and in block letters underneath, it says "NOPE"

ObBloodOath post: entering Buffoon Central

By tigtog on 2011-10-13 • ( 6 )

After Tony Abbott’s “pledge of blood” response to the passing of the carbon price bill in Parliament yesterday, it seems that any minute now he’ll nudge over the line into full-blown WHARRGARBL* territory…

Tiny violin/fiddle less than half an inch long "Chen, of Beijing, China, took seven years to craft the tiny instrument from 30 separate parts with strings thinner than a human hair."

When one’s right to dissent is so terribly, terribly suppressed…

By tigtog on 2011-08-16 • ( 3 )

…that one can only manage to get one’s views published in the opinion pages of a national broadsheet, one knows that the nation is in a parlous state of enforced conformity indeed.

What happens when the unscrupulous tell lies about scientists?

By tigtog on 2011-06-04 • ( 6 )

Scientists get death threats, that what happens.

So what else happened in Parliament yesterday?

By tigtog on 2011-06-02 • ( 1 )

The media’s way too excited about the ‘meow’ incident to tell us, so Grog’s Gamut gave a summary of the day’s proceedings. Barnaby Joyce put in his regular carrying on like a pork chop time in the Senate Estimates Committee. And did you notice that despite the drop in GDP, the Terms of Trade figures are looking really good?