Monthly Archives: December 2006

Defence are buying what?

December 31, 2006 – 1:47 pm

Defence analyst (and occasional Catallaxy commenter) Dr Carlo Kopp had an excellent piece in yesterday’s Age about the recent defence decision to buy Super Hornets as interim replacements for the F-111. Money quote: The Super Hornet is the US Navy’s follow-on fighter to the “Classic Hornet”, currently flown by four RAAF squadrons. While slightly larger […]

By skepticlawyer | Posted in Defence | Comments (59)

It’s a crazy world

December 31, 2006 – 1:21 pm

I saw this article about a parasite that apparently makes women attractive and sexy, but it makes men stupid and unattractive. It really is a very crazy world.

By Legal Eagle | Posted in Fark! | Comments (0)

An apposite quotation

December 30, 2006 – 11:36 am

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965) I found this nice little quotation today. It encapsulates my own opinion on these matters so pithily, concisely and, […]

By Legal Eagle | Posted in Middle east, Politics | Comments (2)

Bureaucrash! (And a Happy New Year)

December 29, 2006 – 11:23 pm

While browsing the interwebs last night, I happened upon libertarian activist organisation Bureaucrash! While organising libertarians has always struck me as something likely to be rawther difficult (the phrase ‘herding cats’ comes to mind), these folks seem to be succeeding. Even better, their entire website is a very nice pisstake of stereotypical socialist efforts – […]

By skepticlawyer | Posted in General, Politics | Comments (7)

Politics

December 27, 2006 – 10:20 pm

Obviously I’m a passionate person with a lot of ideas about society, law, morals and so forth. And I care about people. So why don’t I get involved in politics? Are you kidding? The other night, I was watching Decadence, a six part series about modern culture in Australia, hosted by Pria Viswalingam. This week, […]

By Legal Eagle | Posted in Politics | Comments (7)

Opting out of Welfare

December 27, 2006 – 9:55 pm

I’m not usually a huge fan of internet humour, but this piece has been doing the rounds of the interwebs for a while; this version actually came to me via Liberal Democratic Party treasurer David Leyonhjelm, who (apart from sending the funny) also let me know that Peter Saunders (CIS) has recently suggested that the […]

By skepticlawyer | Posted in Economics, Politics, Public Policy | Comments (130)

Open Ashes Thread – Boxing Day Test, MCG

December 25, 2006 – 6:55 pm

Australia has the Ashes safely in its keeping. Nominally, the rest of this series is a ‘dead rubber’, the sort that, historically, Australia did poorly in. But Warne and McGrath are bowing out after Sydney; Warne is on 699 test wickets; McGrath has a point to prove before his last series, the one-day World Cup. […]

By skepticlawyer | Posted in Cricket, General, Sport | Comments (59)

Merry Christmas everyone

December 25, 2006 – 11:13 am

Hope that everyone has a lovely Christmas! It is my baby’s first Christmas; I think she likes it already. I know some of my readers don’t celebrate Christmas…so I hope they have a lovely day off instead.

By Legal Eagle | Posted in General | Comments (0)

Poor Old Mr Lefty

December 24, 2006 – 9:22 pm

I’m not a great fan of Mr Lefty and his blogs. I’ve only looked at them occasionally. As I’ve said, I prefer not to look at issues from a stereotypically “left wing” or “right wing” perspective, and I find his blogs a bit pious and predictable in general. However, it seems that some nasty pasty […]

By Legal Eagle | Posted in Blogging | Comments (0)

Cyberstalking for Christmas

December 24, 2006 – 2:58 pm

How to put a dampener on the Christmas spirit: Some lame f*ckhead has hacked Anonymous Lefty (aka barrister Jeremy Sear) and deleted all his blogs. It looks like AL’s got no backups at all, so is in an even worse situation than Catallaxy was when we lost some of our archive earlier this year. At […]

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