Archive for January 12th, 2009
Quadrant and that hoax: The Left shouldn’t lie
Posted by John, January 12th, 2009 - under The Left.
Comments: 5
The hoax on Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant magazine didn’t advance the cause of the Left; it set it back. I am using Left in a broad general sense to cover reformers, those who vacillate between reform and revolution and revolutionaries alike. For overseas readers, here in Australia Katherine Wilson recently played a hoax on Keith […]
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Prince Harry – our racist regals
Posted by John, January 12th, 2009 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Australian Republic
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Racist Prince Harry. I rest my case for an Australian republic.
Kevin Rudd – our Man of Butter
Posted by John, January 12th, 2009 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Australian politics
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My thanks to Paul Drakeford from Kew for this. Writing in the Australian First Byte (Letters) section today, Monday January 12, Paul says: ‘Kevin Rudd, our Man of Butter. As soon as there’s any heat in the kitchen he melts away.’
Warmaholic skeptic recants, sort of
Posted by John, January 12th, 2009 - under Uncategorized.
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Jon Jenkins wrote a particularly aggressive and partly ad hominem piece against climate change in The Australian newspaper recently (‘Let’s not waste energy on the warmaholics’ fantasy’ 6 January.) I mentioned the piece on this site in ‘A dagger in the heart of climate change scepticism’ about a well argued and lucid pro-global warming article from […]
Dave Warner – suburban boy makes good
Posted by John, January 12th, 2009 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Cricket
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Dave Warner may be “just a suburban boy” – a bad joke for those in the know – but his twenty20 cricket debut for Australia on Sunday night, scoring 89 runs off 43 balls, was exhilarating.