As I posted over at Larvatus Prodeo, the media has fallen down on checking the Speedogate story. Despite John Watkins’ press release about how Peter Debnam’s state of undress has become an “international scandal”, all he could reference was a… Read More ›
social change
Mori to do time? Unlikely.
So I turn on the tabloid TV this morning, and there’s much agitation about the possibility that Major Michael Mori, one of the military lawyers for David Hicks and a personal fave in the shyster ranks, may face charges that… Read More ›
Denounce the ancestors
In the States, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney is being smeared because of the religious beliefs of his great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, both polygamous Mormons in the fashion of their time, well before the Mormon Church and the State of Utah… Read More ›
Sexism always sucks, even when dissing the Coultergeist
There’s always some low-level antagonism towards Ann Coulter going on amongst the socially progressive bloggers, and fair enough too. The woman is a hateful bigot who deliberately stirs up anger and fear towards anyone not fitting into her conservative WASPangelical… Read More ›
Just more politics, not a “clash of civilisations”
The Guardian: a global survey released on Monday showed that most people believe the current clash between Islamists and the West is primarily political rather than genuinely based on religious and cultural differences. (NB: update appended – debunking the talking-point… Read More ›
Election issues: transport edges out water shortages in wake of QM2
To the surprise of no-one who commutes into the Sydney CBD these days, Sydney’s transport system got tired and emotional and went to take a Bex and a lie down last night just as all the fireworks-trippers were trying to… Read More ›
The Un-Australian Government
Go take a look at Weez’s suggested election poster for the Libs. (To minimise confusion for my American visitors, understand that the Liberal Party in Australia are actually conservatives, Tories to the core.)
Leadership
Someone (Atrios? Ezra Klein?) posted a link to this post last week from TPMCafe’s Reed Hunt, 10 Events that could change the election’s dynamics, and I quoted one line from it last week in an article I posted at LP… Read More ›
Conservative bloggers channel Jan Brady: Marcotte! Marcotte! Marcotte!
Cut and pasted from a comment I left over at my LP post on bloggers joining political campaigns in the US (related to this Hoyden post from last week): Ha. The predicted conservative blogger meltdown about Amanda Marcotte joining the… Read More ›
Kinda proves his point
A Nigerian senator says he has received death threats after saying 90% of electoral candidates are corrupt.
Hoyden About Town 